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Cover illustration: Fido, a Monitor Lizard from Africa,
holds court for young admirers in the Main Rotunda.
Fido helped in the collection of funds for the purchase
of his distant ancestor, Protoceratops, as a centennial
project of the children of Ontario.

Candid by Leighton Warren, R.O.M.

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ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

The Director’s Report

To assume the responsibility for one of the world’s great museums is a stimulating
but daunting task. This is particularly true when museums are insufficiently financed
and yet are being called upon to accept an increasingly active role both in education
and in public life. The Royal Ontario Museum has earned international fame for
its collections built up in the past by dedicated men of vision and for the quality
of its staff recruited with care by past directors. Its research work is highly respected
wherever scientists and archaeologists meet. In many respects it can claim to have
acted as a National Museum though without the funds that a national museum, a
mirror of a country’s culture, generally commands.

It has long been recognized throughout the museum world that the equipment
of the R.O.M. is hopelessly inadequate, that it is grossly overcrowded and financially
under-supported. The inspiration of men like Currelly and his backers who gave
Toronto this great cultural resource seems to have faded. The effect has been
cumulative. Galleries have grown antiquated, shoddy and require renewal. The
educational services which introduce our rapidly growing population of children
to the wonders of nature and man are badly over-worked and under-staffed.
Study/storage and offices have been created only at the cost of closing prime
exhibition areas. Proper storage for valuable collections, which though vital for
research have been squeezed out or are not required for actual exhibition, hardly
exists. Some departments like Entomology have no galleries at all. The whole
museum needs atmosphere control — an absolute essential in the North American
continent and without which, in a humid atmosphere and one of increasing pollu¬
tion, valuable objects cannot be preserved and museum staff cannot even work. The
library cannot keep up with the minimum needs of a self-respecting museum library.
Research and expeditions, if they survive at all, do so only on a hand-to-mouth
basis. Publications, which carry the flag of Canadian scholarship across the world,
are held up for want of finance. The purchase grant to be shared among twenty-one
departments works out at less than $1,000 per department per year. Exhibitions must
be turned away for want of funds to allow the province to enjoy them. The guardian
staff is reduced to dangerous levels as vandalism increases. The decoration of the
Museum theatre is a source of shame, the restaurant facilities would daunt even the
most tolerant visitor. An incoming director is driven to the conclusion that the
survival of the institution is little more than a triumph of faith and loyalty on the
part of its staff over frustrations, parsimony and total lack of appreciation.

None of this is new. Year after year past directors have underlined the short¬
comings and indicated the dangers of the situation. Only last year, my predecessor
in his report said, “It may be that the time has now come when bold replanning
should be done. The easing of pressure can only be obtained by adding substantially
to the present building, by creating ‘live’ (that is, usable and accessible) storage on
the outer limits of the city or by separating either the Arts or the Sciences from the
present union and housing them elsewhere.” To somebody anxious to improve these

intolerable conditions, the most depressing aspect of the Cinderella situation is the
complete lack of communication with those government powers which can effect the
necessary reforms and a complete absence of constructive authoritative direction.
But it is no solution to a huge and costly problem simply to ignore it.

At the same time, the R.O.M. has a secure place in the hearts of the people of
Toronto and it has served and continues to serve the whole country so well that its
needs, massive though they seem, must be considered as a welcome challenge not
only to the Director and his staff but also to the provincial government and the
many well-wishers who, with mounting frustration, have tried to help it over the
lean years. Having stated what needs to be done, the coming decade must be devoted
to the generous restoration and rehabilitation of Canada’s greatest museum. Within
such an affluent society, half measures, patching up and making do can no longer
and should no longer be tolerated by the public, the staff and the education
authorities.

Much of the affection of visitors for the Museum springs from familiarity with
it gained from an early, formative age. The R.O.M. gives classes to over 95,000
children each year, a service which, in a world dominated by materialistic values, is
of increasing importance. It is encouraging to see the long line of buses outside the
door and the mounting pressure of young visitors who form one eighth of our
attendance. They have created a problem which can be solved only by imaginative,
large-scale planning. The pressure has forced the staff to deny instruction to children
below Grade 5 in the hope that over-worked facilities can be reserved for those most
likely to profit from them. The Toronto Metropolitan Boards of Education, them¬
selves very conscious of what the Museum provides, were immediately responsive to
an appeal from the Director for more funds for the year ahead. They tripled their
grant and welcomed a suggestion that they establish a system whereby each year
two school teachers will be seconded to the Museum for one year of service. We hope
that these temporary recruits will enjoy the experience — though they have already
expressed their sense of shock at the conditions in which the Education Department
is forced to work. For our part, we shall certainly be stimulated by their contribution
and benefit from their constructive criticism and advice on means whereby we can
enrich the school curricula and, still more, widen the horizons of the young. The
possibilities for service to the community in this direction are limitless and the
Museum was most grateful for the sympathy and encouragement which the Boards
so readily proffered as well as for their quick appreciation of the value of the services
they used so freely. As a result of these changes it is hoped to reorganize the teaching
system in order to handle more children more efficiently than hitherto. As a means
of establishing contact with teachers the Museum held its first Open Night for
Teachers. It was well attended and proved most valuable both to our staff and. as
the teachers assured us, to them also.

Line of buses awaits high school students gathering on
the steps after a Museum visit. At right, during the Open
Night for Teachers, guests gather information sheets at
an improvised information desk.

Faced with all these vital shortcomings in almost every aspect of the work of the
Museum, it was a shock to learn that the government made a cut of $300,000 in
the budget for 1967-68, as a result of which the Museum would have been obliged
still more to restrict its activities with an inevitable decline of morale. This in turn
would lead to a loss of the kind of qualified staff which is already difficult to find.
As a result of representations made on the part of the University, the Department of
Education agreed to reconsider the Museum’s budget. Meanwhile, in order to carry
the Museum over the immediate period ahead, it was forced to apply to the
University for a loan to help it meet its most pressing financial difficulties — a sad
recourse indeed for such an institution! Fortunately the government showed a
generous measure of undexstanding and sympathetically replaced $250,000 of the
cut. Thus the Museum will at least be able to meet its immediate obligations without
positive distress.

In the spring the provincial government informed the Univei'sity that it intended
to separate the Museum from the University under whose trusteeship it had served
for 17 years. The Director was subsequently informed of this decision. Thus the end
of the academic year was taken up with involved and, it must be confessed, somewhat
disturbing considerations of its future. The Museum, with its 21 departments and
numerous ancillary seiwices, is in effect, a university in microcosm and its govern¬
ment is worthy of as careful a study as that of the University itself.

This is hardly the place to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the
University affiliation, on which thei'e are many opinions. The academic staff, over
the years, have gained the respect of and some measure of parity with their colleagues
on the teaching staff of the University. They have secured a degree of tenure without
which security no museum will ever be able to attract and hold first-class staff in
what has become an increasingly demanding career. While watching over the
Museum’s academic and administrative staff, the University has, in return, made
good use of the Museum’s teaching and research facilities and has done what it
could, within the context of its mfinitely larger problems, to help it financially. Above
all it can be said that the University has undei'stood the functions of a museum, the
needs of its staff and the importance of its integrity. The change when it comes will
bring added administrative responsibilities, considerable added costs and the need
for more staff for which the space simply does not exist.

The divorce, it is hoped, will give the Museum an independent status which will
enable it to seek more adequate funds than it has hitherto enjoyed. At the same
time it is vital to create a system whereby, on a basis of mutual respect, the academic
association is maintained and, we hope, strengthened. It is most desirable that the
University, in some way, will continue to exert an understanding influence on its
affairs. The Museum, for its part, has contributed to the resources and, modesty
aside, as the world’s largest university museum, to the lustre of this great University.
It is interesting to note in passing that a recently compiled list of learned publications
emanating from the science departments alone during the years of University control
amounts to more than three hundred items and of scientific expeditions about fifty.
This is no mean record.

In keeping with the appreciation of the expanding role of the Museum in public
life, the R.O.M. has long felt the need for a comprehensive museum training pro¬
gramme designed to serve the whole of Canada. Much thought and research has gone
into establishing such a programme. The Museum hopes to launch it in 1968 under
the aegis of the University of Toronto School of Gi'aduate Studies and that it will
lead to a degree fi'om the University. The resources, variety and long expei'ience
of the R.O.M. in all aspects of museum life fit it to serve the whole and growing
museum world of Canada by maintaining a steady supply of young, well-trained
museum personnel. It will be satisfying to be able to help some of the many young
people who wi'ite to the Museum asking how they can eixxbai'k upon such a demand¬
ing but I'ewaiding cai'eer.

Intei’nally, the old Near Eastern Department was divided to create an Egyptian
Department and a West Asian Department under Dr. Cuyler Young. This is a

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natural development and should benefit both new departments by enabling Miss
Needier to devote more of her remaining valuable time than hitherto to research
without the heavy administrative load she has carried in the past. It will stimulate
Dr. Young to create an interesting exhibition of the art and archaeology of the large
area covered by his new department. Needless to say the change, though logical and
forward-looking, intensifies our present problem of shortage of space.

A determined effort has been made to interest and involve more of the public
in the activities of the Museum. As a result membership has risen rapidly from about
1,000 to over 1,500 and this must be considered as only a beginning. The number
of visitors has continued steadily to rise and will soon reach one million per annum.
It is by no means unusual for us on a Sunday afternoon to have six thousand visitors.

It was a surprise to the Director, on assuming office, to discover that, unlike
most museums, the R.O.M. enjoyed no Purchase Trust Fund. Although a museum
has a right to look for some purchase funds from responsible government agencies,
much of this money should come from the public at large. The Board authorized the
establishment of such a fund and the Director initiated a search for a “Group of
One Hundred,” a body of philanthropic and interested men and women who will
each match dollar for dollar his personal contributions up to $1,000 per year for ten
years or as long as they are willing to do so. Of this Fund, only the interest will be
spent. The response to date has been most encouraging and it is gratifying to note
that the group includes two of the Museum’s own Board — Mr. R. A. Laidlaw and
Mr. R. G. Meech. Members of the Museum’s own staff have also contributed in
a most generous way. Meanwhile it has been a source of the deepest concern that
the Museum is forced to refuse even bargains offered at a fraction of their value on
the open market. Other great museums have purchase trusts ranging up to one
hundred million dollars. It may be unrealistic to expect that of Toronto, but it is
truly shameful that in a situation of shrinking supply, Canada’s greatest museum
should be forced to refuse objects costing only from five to twenty-five thousand
dollars, items which most large museums would consider minor purchases.

Another effort to interest the public will be a new quarterly bulletin, to be
called Rotunda, the first number of which will appear in January, 1968. For the
launching of this we are grateful to the most generous support of the Laidlaw
Foundation to which, so often in the past, the Museum has appealed, and, it must
be said, seldom in vain. It is hoped to make this a feature of the cultural life of the
community and to provide through it an added inducement to membership. If it
maintains the standard planned for it, the influence of Rotunda should extend
beyond Toronto alone.

Perhaps the most encouraging aspect of the year was the beginning of the
McLaughlin Planetarium, the initial planning for which was so thoroughly carried
out by my predecessor, Dr. W. E. Swinton, and by the Chief Mineralogist, Dr. V. B.
Meen. As the very distinctive structure rises to the south of the Museum, one
wonders with mixed emotions of pleasure and concern what difference it will make
to the life of the Museum as a whole. Operating day and evening, seven days a
week, fifty-two weeks a year, it will serve very large numbers of children and of the
public in the most exciting way. Equally, of course, it will add to the expenses,
responsibilities and difficulties of the Museum. Dr. Henry C. King, formerly of the
London Planetarium, joined the staff as first Curator of the Planetarium and it is
fortunate that the energetic and imaginative running of this very complex service
is thus in the hands of a man pre-eminent in his field.

The Director would like to take this opportunity to thank Colonel R. S.
McLaughlin for yet another most generous gift of the funds to design, create and
install imaginative galleries leading up to the planetarium theatre itself. He then,
with characteristic generosity and foresight, gave the Museum a Trust Fund of no
less than $1,000,000 which will ensure that at least this fine enterprise will not lack
funds for all the many extra things which it will need to keep it alive — for the
essential but costly changing of shows, for special lecturers, publications, publicity,
etc. This Fund, though expressly not intended for day-to-day running expenses which

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must be met by the government, will make all the difference between a flagging
hand-to-mouth existence and a lively, exciting one. It is a source of encouragement
that the vision and generosity of this great Canadian will ensure that his benefaction
will not be as constantly beset by financial problems as the Museum itself.

The second encouraging augury for the future occurred when the President of
the University established a Users’ Committee to study a brief on the expansion and
reorganization of the whole Museum. The brief was assembled with the enthusiastic
assistance of the staff. Following the Committee’s acceptance of the brief, the
University granted funds for the appointment of a consultant to work out in detail
the necessary changes and expansion. It is expected that this work, due to be com¬
pleted in October, will lay down a manual of requirements which any future
architect will be required to satisfy. For this timely assistance our thanks are due to
the University whose funds are always hard-pressed and to the President whose
support and interest have been a source of encouragement. These are the initial steps
which we are convinced will lead, at some future date, to Toronto being able to
boast one of the finest museums on the continent with facilities and services second
to none.

This is an exciting prospect but one which lies a few years and a few million
dollars in the future. Past directors have emphatically stressed the need for this
expansion and the Museum looks forward to its implementation. Without it the
Museum, on which the demands are great and increasing, will not be able to cure
its present ills and re-establish itself as a dynamic force in the cultural life of a
growing metropolis. The sooner it is started the less it will cost and the more it
can provide.

A number of major improvements started by my predecessors have been com¬
pleted. The Gallery of Invertebrate Palaeontology, more easily identified by the
neophyte visitor as “The Hall of Fossils,” was opened in January and met with
general approval. Designed by Mr. Harley Parker and built by our own hard-pressed
force of craftsmen, it incorporates some new ideas in display. Certain problems of
temperature control and ventilation remain but these will probably only be solved
when the whole building receives proper temperature control. The Armour Court
has been completely remodelled by Mr. Hickl-Szabo in such a way that the fine
collection of armour is now visible and attractively, though not revolutionarily,
shown. This greatly improves the dignified entrance to the Museum. The cases are
arranged in such a way that they can quickly be screened and the whole area used
for large temporary exhibitions which the Exhibition Hall alone cannot accommo¬
date. The Museum hopes in the future to be able to initiate more exhibitions than
hitherto rather than just accept those distributed by other organizations. It is
a pleasure to be able to acknowledge the debt we owe to Mrs. Mary Early
who contributed most generously to the cost of the materials used in the new
Armour Court.

Suit of armour on pedestal
permits walk-around viewing,
and can readily be moved when
the remodelled Armour Court
is used for special events.

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The most notable exhibition of the year was organized by the Textile Depart¬
ment under the enthusiastic direction of Mrs. K. B. Brett and with some financial
assistance from the Centennial Commission. It comprised a collection of Canadian
costume entitled Modesty to Mod — Dress and Underdress in Canada 1780-1967 .
Most imaginatively shown, the exhibition demonstrated the wealth and scope of the
collections which the Department has assembled over the years, ranging from the
most modest home-spuns to recent haute-couture and uncompromising abbreviation.
It is a consolation to a curator of textiles that the miniskirt and bikini of 1967 will,
at least, create fewer problems of storage than the bustle and the crinoline! A
splendid catalogue contains eight colour plates for which the blocks were produced
in a size suitable for making into postcards. These have proved a great success. The
Museum has sadly lacked a good range of its own postcards and a start has now
been made to build up its stock. The exhibition was graciously opened by
Princess Alexandra before the largest attendance for an opening which the Museum
has enjoyed.

Another notable exhibition was the Loch Collection of Cypriote Antiquities ,
organized by Mrs. Neda Leipen, and the occasion was taken also to commemorate
the late Mr. Lionel Massey through whose efforts the collection came to the R.O.M.
The Director would like here to add a note of personal regret that Mr. Massey’s
premature death deprived him of the opportunity of working with a friend of great
charm and devotion to the interests of the Museum.

Looking around the R.O.M., no serious museum man could fail to recognize
that a number of important galleries have, from lack of money, been sadly neglected.
Two are notably deficient — the Ethnology Galleries with their fine collections of
Indian and Eskimo artifacts fundamentally unchanged for 30 years, and the galleries
of Vertebrate Palaeontology, the Museum’s fine collection of dinosaurs. During the
year imaginative plans have been drawn up for these two major gallery renovations
but finance in the region of $280,000 must be found for them. This is a relatively
small price to pay for the value children and adults could derive from such out¬
standing collections. The projected new wing will enable the Museum to enlarge the
areas which these galleries occupy and also provide galleries for other science depart¬
ments, for instance the Department of Entomology.

The completion of the new Gallery of Mineralogy is drawing near and this fine
display, three years in the making, should open in October. It will prove a revelation
to the public of the beauty locked in these minerals. Would that there were more
public-minded companies like the International Nickel Company which provided
the funds for these galleries! Thanks are due to the President who enabled the
Department of Mineralogy to purchase for $25,000 a spectroscope indispensable
to its work.

Once completed, this area will lead to the Planetarium and the Museum here
acknowledges with gratitude the ready help and expert advice of the University’s
Department of Physical Plant which has helped it with many problems. It is easy
to take such services and advice for granted and in the forthcoming separation the
Museum will miss them greatly. Not the least of its services was an estimate for the
very essential humidity control and air-conditioning of the present building, amount¬
ing to $1,250,000 at present-day prices. This, at the moment, exists only in estimate
but it must be carried out if the Museum is to protect its treasures. It also assisted
with the minimum redecoration of the dilapidated theatre and with plans for the
development of the area outside the building. The theatre redecorations, in which
Mrs. Vaughan of our Board has taken such an active interest, will be carried out
during the summer when it is not needed for Museum or University use.

Two new dioramas were completed during the year under the sensitive direction
of Mr. T. Shortt, one of the Galapagos Islands and the second of Ellesmere Island
in the Canadian Arctic. It is hoped to start on an African diorama and to modernize
the remainder of this gallery which gives so much pleasure to visitors of all ages.
However, much work remains to be done in the general renovation and lay-out of
these galleries.

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Children admire the diorama
constructed from specimens
taken and sketches made during
the R.O.M. expedition to the
Galapagos Islands.

Thanks are due to our Members’ Committee among whose many activities have
been two series of guided midday public talks which have proved most popular.
They also inter alia continued their voluntary assistance in the galleries and helped
as hostesses and programme-sellers on many occasions. They also organized a cen¬
tennial project for Ontario children whereby young visitors will contribute towards
a total of $1,500 required for the purchase of a skeleton of protoceratops. This was
a most imaginative and original idea to add to the fund-raising potential of the
Museum while also giving children, through their own press conferences, an insight
at a tender age into the workings of the press and the demands of public relations.

This was only one of a number of successful publicity ventures handled by the
Museum’s new information officer, Mr. Bruce Easson. His small department which
is expected also to handle publications is under-staffed and overworked. It is
estimated that during this year and next the Museum staff will write no less than
eighty publications but, with a budget of only $14,000 per annum for this purpose,
prospects of seeing their appearance in print seem bleak indeed. Certain basic
publications such as gallery guides are badly needed and are in course of preparation.
Press, radio and television media are becoming increasingly aware of the interest in
the Museum, the Director has made about ten television appearances and under the
direction of Mr. R. Kelly is engaged in a Telescope show for the C.B.C.

It has been a pleasure to co-operate with the programme of the Art Institute
of Ontario which provides a most valuable service in sending travelling exhibitions
throughout Ontario. This is a service which should be expanded as a means of
stimulating other centres eventually to build their own museums. The Museum
contributed to the programme two exhibitions: Nineteenth Century Ontario Needle¬
work and Cityscapes of Early Canada (1845-1884). These were shown in a total of
20 places and will continue to circulate for another year. We are convinced that this
kind of travelling exhibition, accompanied by lectures, is only in the early stages of
realizing its potential and should be encouraged. The Education Department per¬
formed a similar function for children in a number of areas far from Toronto and
the appreciation they always receive is most heart-warming.

During the year the Museum lost the services of two Curators, Dr. R. R. H.
Lemon of Invertebrate Palaeontology and Mr. R. M. Organ of Conservation. Both
will be missed and it is a source of regret to lose the latter through inadequate
facilities to do the work he wished to do. Experts in Conservation of his standing are
very hard to find and he was the only man in Canada in his particular field.
Dr. Lemon completed his new galleries and a guide to them before leaving for
wanner climates. Miss Joan Biggar resigned from the Canadiana Department and
with our thanks for her excellent work go good wishes for her future career.
Mr. Parker is accompanying Professor Marshall McLuhan to New York where he
will spend a year in research into “the response of museum audiences” and the
Museum awaits with keen anticipation the outcome of his researches.

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The first joint meeting of the American Museums Association and the Canadian
Association of Museums proved a brilliant occasion. On some of our staff, notably
Mrs. Downie and Mr. Brook, fell much hard work to organize what proved to be a
most successful convention. The arrangements they and the whole committee made
met with universal praise.

Six of the science departments co-ordinated their academic ambitions to produce
a well-designed, far-reaching plan for systematic and evolutionary biology in order
to qualify for a grant from the National Research Council to establish a “Centre of
Excellence.” Our science departments have contributed in the most imaginative way
to the country’s research facilities and have often been the only source to which the
government agencies could turn for help. The collections and staff are second to
none. Their past contribution and future potential should be recognized and not,
as so often seems to happen, be ignored in the pursuit of what is new and untried.

The plan for the future development of Toronto prepared by the City’s Planning
Department, which appeared last year, surprisingly enough made no mention of the
place museums and similar institutions should take in the developing city. The
Director made representations, joined Mr. Matthew Lawson in discussions on the
problem and it is hoped that this important area of public life will not be neglected
in future planning on the grounds that it is “marginal” and “difficult to assess.” The
resignation of Mr. Lawson deprives the city of a dedicated man and the Museum
of a sympathetic ear.

Finally the Director would like to take this opportunity to thank all the staff of
the Museum for the warmth with which they welcomed him and for the loyal way
in which they have met his demands and supported the Museum during the first
year. It reflects the greatest credit on them and on the institution.

Much of this first report strikes a note of discontent with the status quo but it
also indicates my conviction that no institution with the international renown and
local affection of the Royal Ontario Museum will be allowed to languish while the
determination and goodwill exist to revive it.

Office of the Chief Archaeologist

The pace of our archaeological programme has been maintained during the
past year. A modest increase in funds from the Museum budget and also a continua¬
tion and expansion of support from other institutions and individuals fortunately
made this possible. The following report briefly fists the projects, expresses our appre¬
ciation for the assistance received, and outlines plans for the future.

During the summer of 1966, Dr. Kenyon conducted the first season of
excavation on a group of burial mounds in the Rainy River district, supported with
a grant from the Historic Sites division of the Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development. The excavation of the Armstrong Mound — about 57 feet in
diameter and 6 feet high — at the Long Sault Rapids was the first investigation of a
Laurel Culture mound in Canada. Dating from about a.d. 950, it provides important
evidence for the influence of the Illinois Hopewell Culture on the Rainy River
District and an adequate sample of Laurel ceramic material for analysis.

In collaboration with the Minnesota Historical Society, the Museum also
investigated the waters of Boundary Falls on the Winnipeg River north of Kenora.
A magnificent sample of trade-goods was recovered from two different areas at the
foot of the rapids. Some of the material was almost certainly lost on August 9, 1800,
by Alexander Henry the Younger. The remainder represents the cargo of a canoe
which capsized between that date and 1821.

With the assistance of a faithful volunteer helper, Mrs. C. Finnigan, and a new
departmental technician, Mr. Claus Breede, the long-overdue recataloguing and
preparation of storage-records on the extensive collections of archaeological speci¬
mens was begun in the autumn of 1966. This project will take at least two or
three more years.

Historic archaeology received a new impetus as a result of the interest of
Mr. Donald B. Webster, the Curator of Canadiana, in early pottery and glass kilns

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in the province. With the assistance of a grant from the Ontario Department of
Tourism and Information, an important salvage excavation was carried out under
his directorship on the site of the Brantford Pottery.

The Archaeological Council for Canadian Waterways has continued to provide
a happy and profitable collaboration of trained scuba-divers with the Museum. But
to make it more efficient and to permit the more elaborate programme of underwater
research which is required, the Museum needs an historic archaeologist who could
devote some of his time to this group. In spite of this, four small investigations of
wrecks and underwater installations were made during the summer of 1966 under
Dr. Kenyon’s general supervision.

From January to June, 1967, Dr. David M. Pendergast, the Field Director,
conducted the fourth season of excavations at the site of Altun Ha. As in past years,
t his project enjoyed the support of the Harvie Foundation. For the first time, the
Canada Council made a generous grant to the project. Here, work has continued on
several of the major structures in the ritual complex and their structural history is
being worked out. Although all appear to belong to the classic Maya period — i.e.
seventh to tenth centuries a.d. — traces have been found of post-classic occupation
which may well bridge the gap and explain what happened between that time and
the Spanish conquest of the sixteenth century.

The pond, which was the chief water-supply of the community, was carefully
investigated in April, when a team of scuba-divers from the Museum — Dr. Kenyon,
Mr. Breede and Mr. Gantert of the R.C.A.F. — went to the site for this purpose.
Somewhat disappointingly, the pond did not prove to be a “sacred well” containing
quantities of sacrificial offerings, but it was discovered that the ancient Maya had
ingeniously modified what was a natural feature to ensure a larger and cleaner supply
of fresh water. The natural exit has been dammed and the pond lined with clean
clay to make a reservoir adequate to their needs.

The work at Altun Ha has proved so important and rewarding that the field
project may well be continued for two more years rather than for the one year which
had been originally planned. Dr. Pendergast and his devoted wife — as archaeologist,
housekeeper, artist and general factotum — have done remarkable work. This year,
again, in spite of our best efforts, they have had to work without a competent
full-time assistant.

In 1965-66, Dr. T. Cuyler Young, the field director of the Iran project, carried
out a programme of exploration and sounding to discover a site which could be the
focus of the Museum’s interest in Iran. During the past year, Dr. Young has been
doing research on the results of that project and preparing for the coming first
season at the site chosen for work — Godin Tepe, a city-mound between Hamadan
and Kermanshah. In June, 1967, largely as a result of a substantial grant from the
Harvie Foundation and the assistance of Yale University, Dr. Young will initiate a
programme of excavation which is planned to continue for five years.

The fifth season of collaboration between the Museum and the British School of
Archaeology in the excavation of the Old City of Jerusalem, Jordan, took place
in the summer of 1967. The Museum was supported in this effort by the University
of Toronto, the University of Trinity College, McGill University, Trent University,
Carleton University, Waterloo-Lutheran University and by private contributions.
Representatives of several of these institutions participated. Dr. A. D. Tushingham
was head of the Canadian party and Associate Director of the expedition, the
Director being Miss Kathleen M. Kenyon, Principal of St. Hugh’s College, Oxford.

As in past years, the major interest of the expedition has been to elucidate the
limits of the ancient city at different points in its history. This, in fact, means the
discovery and dating of the lines of the walls which protected the city at the different
periods. Our efforts have resulted in the definition of these lines — and so of the cities
they contained — from the earliest period (about 1800 b.c.) down to the present.
The extent of the City of David (Zion) is now clear, as are the lines which the walls
followed at the time of the Crucifixion. Unfortunately, because Jerusalem is a living
city, it is not possible to excavate at many points which are crucial if the full story is

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to be told. However, inference — based on ascertained evidence and probability — -
generally leaves little room for doubt.

Much of the Chief Archaeologist’s time over the past year has been devoted to
research on the history of the Iranian crown jewels. The study and publication of this
collection was assumed by the Museum two years ago and has had the collaboration
and support of the Central Bank of Iran — its custodian — and the government of
that country. In connection with his researches, Dr. Tushingham made a second visit
to Tehran in February, 1967, and returned via Moscow and Leningrad to study
comparable Persian materials in the collections of the Kremlin and the Hermitage
Museums. Dr. V. B. Meen, the Chief Mineralogist, who is responsible for the study
of the gems, and Dr. Tushingham have almost completed the first draft of their
manuscript which is to be published by the University of Toronto Press. The Birks
Family Foundation, which in the spring of 1966 made the initial study by eight
persons possible, has made a further generous contribution to the costs of producing
the book.

During the summer of 1966, the Museum made a further contribution of £200
to the important project which has, until recently, been carried out by Air. James
Mellaart at the early Neolithic site of Catal Hiiyiik in Turkey. Excavations have now
come to an end at this site, but the study of the important results and their publica¬
tion is being pushed forward.

The Newsletter has now appeared regularly, on a monthly basis, for two years.
The great interest shown in the reports of our field projects and in the technical
means used to preserve, analyse and evaluate the objects discovered has had direct
results. There is a growing public interest not only in this aspect of the Museum’s
work but in the Museum itself. There is no doubt that this interest is often translated
into tangible support for the Museum, in memberships and direct contributions.
Much credit is due Miss Lucile Hoskins, who has borne the chief responsibility of
producing the Newsletter.

Dr. T. Cuyler Young and Dr. A. D. Tushingham have held cross-appointments
in the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University over the past year and
have taken an active part in developing the postgraduate programme for that
Department leading to a degree in archaeology.

Over the past year, much of the Chief Archaeologist’s time has been devoted to
carrying out his responsibilities as programme chairman of the joint American
Association of Museums/Canadian Museums Association Conference held in Toronto
May 30- June 2, 1967.

Dr. W. A. Kenyon received his doctorate from the University of Toronto at its
spring convocation, 1967.

Dr. Kenyon, Mr. Claus Breede, and Mr. Tom Gantert of the R.C.A.F. attended
the Underwater Archaeology Conference held in Miami at the end of the March and
Dr. Kenyon presented a report of underwater archaeological activities in Ontario.
As noted, the three men then proceeded to British Honduras to carry out underwater
investigations of the pond at Altun Ha. Mr. Claus Breede remained in British
Honduras with Dr. Pendergast to assist in mapping, planning and drawing of
artifacts. His appointment to the staff a year ago has been of great value for he
possesses many skills and much enthusiasm.

There is a great need for additional staff at the curatorial level to assist in our field
projects. Even though there have been funds available to hire an historic archaeologist,
no recruit with the required qualifications has been found. Also our archaeological
work in British Honduras requires attention for a full twelve months in each year
and an expert is needed for this as well as to take responsibility for the important
Central American collections which the Museum now has. Unfortunately, space
restrictions in the Museum make a suitable appointment difficult in the immediate
future.

The Chief Archaeologist expresses to the Director, the Secretary-Treasurer and
other officers of the Museum, his appreciation for the interest they have shown and
the support they have given to the projects under his supervision. The archaeological

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programme may seem to be a lively one, but the responsibility of the Royal Ontario
Museum in this regard is far greater than we can meet with the present staff, funds
and space. Negotiations are under way for excavations at Taima, in Saudi Arabia,
and the authorities have assured us that we will be granted a permit for the work. But
the Museum should be the focus for Canadian archaeological efforts abroad; its
experience, collections and staff all qualify it for this position. But if it is to assume
this leadership, it will need the support — so far almost unsolicited — of the federal
government and far broader sources of money and staff than have been available up
to now.

Canadian a Department

Mr. Donald Webster, curator, reports that as was to be expected in Centennial
Year his Department has been extremely active. It has held six exhibitions and the
popular In a Canadian Attic has been continued. The exhibitions included: La Belle
Province, watercolours and oils of early Quebec from the Department’s collections;
Canadian Profile, 19th and early 20th Century Photographs by William Notman of
Montreal, circulated by the McCord Museum, McGill University; Ships and the Sea,
paintings and prints of vessels, maritime scenes, and naval engagements, eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, from the Department collections; An Old Canadian
Winter, paintings, watercolours, and prints, from the Department collections, of
nineteenth-century winter scenes and activities; Sculptures ancie?ines du Canada
frangais, eighteenth- to twentieth-century Quebec woodcarving and cabinetwork, in¬
cluding figurines and religious articles from the collection of Mrs. Nettie M. Sharpe,
St. Lambert, Quebec, and armoire doors and recent furniture acquisitions in the
Department collections; Discovery and M ap ping of Upper Canada, fifteenth- to
nineteenth-century maps, from the collection of Dr. Alexander MacDonald, illus¬
trating the cartography of Upper Canada.

Demands for loans were equally heavy and the Department was happy to help
other institutions whenever possible.

It is encouraging to see increasing activity in field work. On December 10 and
11, 1966, and from March 13 to 24, 1967, this Department excavated the site of
the Brantford stoneware pottery (1849-1905) at Brantford, Ontario. This was a
salvage operation conducted under considerable pressure of time and inclement
weather conditions, but was eminently successful. A preliminary report has been made
to the Ontario Historic Sites Board; an article has been prepared for Meeting Place,
and a full report and survey will be prepared for Historic Sites and museum
publication early in 1967-68.

On June 15, excavations began at the William Eby pottery, Conestogo, Ontario
under Dr. Walter Kenyon, an operation requiring about 10 working days and com¬
pleted prior to July 1, 1967.

The Curator has published in Canadian Collector and Meeting Place and his
new book, American Decorated Stoneware Pottery, is with the publisher. Mr. Gerald
Stevens’ new book, One Hundred Years of Canadian Glass, is also with the publisher.
Mary Allodi’s catalogue of Watercolours in the ROM Collection is now complete,
and could quickly be made ready for museum publication when funds are available.

The Curator has lectured to numerous groups in Ontario, largely on furniture
and pottery, has taken part in University of Toronto and McMaster University exten¬
sion series and made numerous appearances on CBC-TV and CTV, and various
radio programmes. Mrs. Helen Ignatieff has lectured to groups in Toronto and
Montreal. Mr. Gerald Stevens has taken part in a McMaster University seminar and
a Corning Museum of Glass seminar. The Curator, Mrs. Ignatieff, Miss Biggar, and
Mr. Stevens lectured to students as part of the Museum’s Fine Arts 324 course.

On June 5, four students started a summer task of recataloguing the collection
of approximately 8,000 prints, unframing prints on racks, and carrying out a general
rematting of pictures. The latter is now essential to the preservation of the collection.
The main objective of a complete recataloguing of the print collection is the prepara¬
tion of separate subject area catalogues for publication.

With the aid of volunteers of the Members’ Committee, the cataloguing of books
has continued through the year. During May, with the assistance of the Museum’s
Library staff working with Miss Janet Holmes, all outstanding cataloguing of books
in the Department library was completed.

Book and publication acquisitions during the year have been considerable. Our
library budget of $275, as expected, proved to be insufficient for even very minimum
essential purchases. From this allowance and the Sigmund Samuel endowment funds,
the Department, by the end of April 30, spent more than $1,100 for books and other
publications.

In September, 1966, Miss Elisabeth Head joined the Department as depart¬
mental secretary. Miss June Biggar, curatorial assistant, resigned effective March 30,
1967, and in thanking her for her many able and energetic contributions, the Depart¬
ment also wishes her good fortune in her new career.

The year has been most enriching in acquisitions and support. Approximately two
hundred items entered the Department of which the most important were: two
watercolours. “A Group of Indian Men and Women” and “A White Trader in Cloak
and Fur Hat,” circa 1800; a tall clock of mixed woods, circa 1860, belonging to Sir
John A. Macdonald, the gift of Mr. E. Murray Leahey; one bird’s-eye maple,
Hepplewhite style chest of drawers, Nova Scotia, circa 1830; one tin and sheet iron
weathercock, Quebec, mid-nineteenth century; one ink and wash drawing “The City
of Quebec from the Anchorage, 1809,” by Francis Beaufort; and a pine cupboard,
Germanic influence, circa 1830, Peterborough County, Ontario.

Our sincere thanks are due to the following foundations and organizations with¬
out whose generous support this Department, a vista, so to speak, of Canadian history
and culture, would have been denied some most important objects.

The following benefactions and grants have been received to April 30, 1967:
the J. P. Bickell Foundation, $6,000, for the purchase of a collection of armoire doors;
the Laidlaw Foundation, $5,100, for the purchase of an eighteenth-century Quebec
commode; the MacLean Foundation, $3,000, for the purchase of a pine diamond-
point armoire, Quebec, late eighteenth century; sustaining members, Junior League
of Toronto, $150, for the purchase of the watercolour, “H.M.S. Barque Wanderer,
Aground in the St. Lawrence, Quebec,” circa 1810; the Ontario Historic Sites Board,
$2,800, for pottery works excavations at Conestogo and Markham, Ontario, and glass
factory excavations at Mallorytown, Ontario; the Ontario Historic Sites Board, $300,
for stoneware pottery excavations at Brantford.

Total attendance, including school groups, for the Canadiana Galleries from
July 1, 1966, through April 30, 1967, was 22,714, an increase of 1,528 over the same
period in 1965-66. It is a source of regret that these collections are not with the
main body of the R.O.M. where they would be enjoyed by forty times as many
visitors.

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Conservation Department

Two varieties of crystal observed on tin pannikins recovered from the Winnipeg
River have been identified as compounds that have not been reported hitherto to
occur in nature. In co-operation with the Mineralogy Department, study of these
crystals is proceeding with a view to obtaining their acceptance as new minerals by
the appropriate international committee.

We are co-operating with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Metallurgie of the Wiir-
tembergisches Landesmuseum in Stuttgart in the spectrographic study of Irish gold
by providing minute samples from four objects in our collection.

A study of native copper used by the Indians for artifacts in the collections is
under consideration as a topic for postgraduate study by the Department of Metal¬
lurgy and Materials Science of the University.

Data obtained during a study of the possibility of humidifying the European
galleries have been shared with the engineers at a time when they were estimating
the cost of humidification. Records of relative humidity and temperature in Exhibi¬
tion Hall have been obtained regularly to serve as an indication of the behaviour of
the automatic conditioning equipment. A recorder is to be installed also in the
European galleries in order to obtain data in preparation for humidification at some
future date. It may be of interest to record that an account of the provision of a
high relative humidity for the exhibition of Japanese Art Treasures has been con¬
tributed to the programme of a conference on museum climatology to be held by
I.I.C. in London during September, 1967.

The Department was opened to visitors to the joint meetings of the Canadian
and American Associations of Museums and to museum staff.

Extensive assistance has been given to the European Department in cleaning and
restoring their exhibits for the renovated Armour Court. Material has been provided
for the vapour-phase inhibition of rusting and advice given on the provision of a
cooler environment for the more susceptible of the objects. Assistance has also been
given to Canadiana and to the Textile and other departments as required by their
exhibition programmes.

Vandalism in the galleries has continued, the result of a shortage of guards.
About twenty examples of damage came to the attention of the Department during
the year.

Special lectures given by R. M. Organ are as follows: In the R.O.M. series
Digging into the Past, on “The Conservators’ Contribution to Archaeology” ; at an
international conference on Historic Archaeology held in Dallas, on “The Conserva¬
tion of Iron Objects”; at a colloquium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
on the problems of conservation presented by ancient silver; and on the “Methods
and Purposes of Electrolytic Reduction of Metal Antiquities” at the meeting of the
American group of the International Institute for Conservation in May.

A series of twenty lectures on the Chemistry of Conservation have been delivered
to those members of the museum staff who wished to attend. The greatest attendance
at any one lecture numbered 28, drawn from thirteen departments.

Lectures given outside Toronto have been repeated within the Department for
the benefit of our own staff and, as problems arose, informal talks have been given
on the theory of the various techniques brought into use for specific purposes. Tech¬
nicians attached to other departments have attended on these occasions.

With the aid of the Director and through the generosity of the Chairman of
CFTO a videotape transfer of the “University of the Air” programme on “Conserva¬
tion at the R.O.M.” has been acquired. It was shown at the I.I.C. annual general
meetings in Ottawa in May and was attended by about 150 conservators.

The staff increased in number and particular importance is attached to the
future addition of a second scientist competent in metallography and chemical
analysis. The need in the Museum for studies of the materials of archaeological
objects is pressing.

Provision of working space for this member has been made possible by addition
of a third room to the Department. Much-needed space for the safe housing of

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paintings while they await cleaning and relining can now be provided and the
augmented departmental records and library can also expand a little and become
, more accessible to the larger staff.

New equipment has also been acquired, most of it of a kind immediately useful
in actual conservation procedures or in the control of these procedures. Perhaps the
most important item is a still, together with a 150-gallon reservoir, from which
to fill our new large sinks. Until now, water of distilled quality has only been available
in small quantities.

Examination of 34 objects was made for six departments, using microscopes
and facilities for chemical analysis already available to us, together with the X-ray
diffraction unit in the Mineralogy Department. Condition reports were made of
945 objects. At least 350 objects passed through the Department for repairs, restora¬
tion or conservation during the current fiscal year, in addition to the several hundred
objects in the armour collection that have received routine attention.

In June the Curator left the Museum to join the Smithsonian, Washington,
where the equipment exists for the kind of advanced work to which he wishes to
devote his enemies.

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Egyptian Department

A historic event in the life of the Museum was the official division, in October,
of the former Near Eastern Department into two separate departments: the Egyptian
Department and the West Asian Department. The Curator takes the opportunity to
thank the Director and the Secretary-Treasurer for their efficiency and understanding
in bringing about this administrative change, which is natural and very desirable in
a developing institution. West Asia and the Islamic Near East are valuable and
proper peripheral studies for an Egyptologist but the twenty-year curatorial respon¬
sibility for all three areas, assumed of necessity, is now gratefully relinquished. Even
without the complications of extended absences on field work and University commit¬
ments outside the Museum it is in practice impossible in this complex institution for a
curator to avoid some responsibility for decisions made by his department. Division
was the logical means of giving Dr. Young full responsibility for a growing department
covering a large part of the Middle East. It will also give the Curator more time
to concentrate on the development and publication of the Egyptian collection.

The work which the departmental reorganization involved interfered less with
this year’s normal productivity than the temporary loss of the study-room that will
be shared by the two new departments. This study-room has been rendered useless
and its material inaccessible by the construction work in the west-central area of the
second floor. No space exists to spread out, classify and study large groups of objects
even for projects which do not involve the now inaccessible material awaiting
accommodation in drawers and cupboards yet to be installed.

In spite of the natural frustrations caused by this situation the success of the
construction now nearing completion is becoming evident. Not only will it furnish
new desperately needed work and storage space for the three departments concerned
but it will improve the proportions of the gallery, where the original plan for the
partitioning of the space has at last been put into effect. It is gratifying, too, to see
that Dr. Young’s office, whose removal to this area had been recommended by the
undersigned as the only possible relief for our space problems, is at last becoming
habitable.

Comparatively little gallery work was accomplished during the year, having been
hampered by the lack of work space. However about one hundred explanatory labels
were re-typed on the justifying typewriter, with checked and, in many cases, revised
copy.

Short of complete reinstallation in modern cases, lighting is the most urgent need
in the galleries. The six lighted wall-cases in the Second Egyptian Gallery, which were
not completed until the beginning of the present year, clearly demonstrate the
advantage of such lighting.

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Several minor changes and improvements were made in the galleries, carrying
on the progressive work of illustrating ancient daily life and technology. Among these
were the reorganization of the metal-working and faience exhibits in the Second
Gallery.

With the completion of the gallery part of the location file, work on the study-
room and storage parts of this project has been interrupted. The storage material
must first be reorganized, and nothing can be done with it until the cabinet-work
for the study-room is completed. In the meantime in collaboration with the Registra¬
tion Department work has progressed on the recataloguing of the “Yellow Book”
entries into the card accession-index. It is hoped to complete the assignment of new
numbers by the end of June. The typing of the stencils for the cards is being done
in the Egyptian Department, as this work involves rearrangement, checking and
sometimes revision of the given information in the case of old entries. When all the
“Yellow Book” entries have been assigned new numbers (a total of almost 4,000
items), the re-numbering of the objects themselves in order of accessibility can start.

The 19 fragments of Amarna relief acquired in 1965 have been catalogued in
detail and photographed.

Picture files, clipping files, slides, subject indexes and other aids to the general
care and interpretation of the collection and to research have been worked on as
usual.

The Curator undertook the following research projects: detailed study of the
nineteen Amarna reliefs mentioned above with a view to publication; an unpublished
graffito discovered by her near Buhen (Sudanese Nubia), on which she will read a
paper at the International Congress of Orientalists at the University of Michigan
next August; research in connection with the final publication of the Predynastic
human figures in the collection, completed after reading a paper on the same subject
at the 1965 annual meeting of the American Research Centre in Egypt in Chicago.

In addition to a very few informal talks to outside groups, the curator also
delivered an illustrated lecture course (one hour a week) on Egyptian art and
archaeology as part of the first year Near Eastern History course at University College
and participated in the planning of the graduate programme in archaeology,
Department of Near Eastern Studies.

The Museum contributed $1,000 to the excavations of the Egypt Excavation
Society at Saqquara, directed by Professor W. B. Emery, for the second season.

As the member of the University of Toronto faculty most familiar with the total
record of the American Research Centre in Egypt, and in the absence abroad of the
other senior Egyptologist on the campus, the Curator was pleased to write a brief
account of the A.R.C.E. expressing appreciation of the University’s decision to
become a Research Supporting Member of the Society. This memorandum was
prompted by the hope that the Museum may eventually participate in, or even
initiate, field-work in Egypt. During the year there has been some discussion, in
informal conversations, of the possibility that the University of Toronto might
excavate in Egypt in the near future. On his own initiative Dr. Redford planned to
visit the Delta during the summer of 1967 to investigate possible sites, particularly
Tell el Maskhuta. For this project he obtained limited official sponsorship from the
President’s Office. That the Museum ought to take part in such a venture, should
it materialize, is agreed. The professional and material advantages of taking some
initiative in negotiations are obvious, and the Museum’s opportunities in Egypt for
years to come might benefit by a thorough study of the matter.

It is unfortunate not to be able to record, in this auspicious year, even the minor
Egyptian accessions usually included in the annual report. The material returns from
last year’s contribution to the Egypt Exploration Society have not yet arrived owing
to postponement of the division and of an exhibition to be held by the Society in
London. We have been assured that the division has been generous and that we shall
receive a fine selection.

The most exciting and exasperating event of the year has been the continuing
effort to acquire the 18th-Dynasty wall-painting, offered at the reasonable figure of

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$25,000 U.S. The Museum’s Egyptian collection contains no wall-paintings; they
are indeed very rarely seen outside of Egypt on account of their fragility. This would
have been a fitting gift to the Museum during the year but with the hopelessly
inadequate purchase funds available to the Museum this great opportunity was lost.

All the work reported in the above paragraphs has been constantly interrupted,
as is normal and right, by attending to inquiries by mail and receiving visitors. There
have been colleagues from other North American centres, from Europe and from the
Near East. Students, teachers, writers, broadcasters and advertisers have come with
inquiries of all sorts and the usual number of objects were submitted for examination.
It has been rewarding, as always, to co-operate with specialists in other fields of study.
In medicine alone we were approached this year by three different scholars; we pro¬
vided mummy-tissue and literature to a pathologist for histological study (receiving
copies of the resulting micro-photographs, unintelligible to us but potentially useful),
exchanged information on ancient Egyptian teeth with a professor of dental research,
and produced specimens, literature and ancient pictures for a doctor specializing in
arthritis who is interested in ancient headrests in connection with research on sleeping
habits. Special bibliographies were prepared for groups. A textile and several items
from our picture file were lent for a special exhibition to the Textile School at
Hamilton, through the offices of the Du Pont Company of Canada. These are but
a few examples of the “reference work” done during the year.

Miss Geraldine Bull resigned as departmental secretary to study in France. She
has been replaced by Miss Elspeth Bogle, who graduated this spring from the
University of Toronto, General Arts Course. Mr. Hadaway leaves this Department
at the end of June to work full-time in the West Asian Department. He will be
replaced by Mr. Nick Wasiliw, another graduate of the Central Technical School,
Art Department, whose appointment is also full-time. The Curator wishes to record
here the excellent work Mr. Hadaway has done since he came to the Museum in
September, 1965. The established post of curatorial assistant in this Department has
not yet been filled. Such a curatorial assistant is urgently needed to allow the Curator
more time for publication, teaching and general work with the collection during her
remaining years at the Museum, and to provide continuity and adequate assistance
for a successor.

Department of Ethnology

Dr. E. S. Rogers reports that, beginning in July, 1966, under the supervision of
Mrs. Wood, approximately 20,000 specimens were moved from unsatisfactory storage
in the Borden Building to new storage facilities in the Museum. Unfortunately, this
necessitated the closing of galleries to make room for the essential move. A study/
laboratory was created and all the specimens were classified, recorded and stored as
they should be. Three hundred were properly catalogued.

With the help of a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, a programme of
training for anthropology students during the summer months for museum work
started. They received training in the collections and visited other departments where
they alsp received instruction. The two mainly concerned continued to assist on a
part-time basis during their academic year.

An inventory of all the major departmental holdings was compiled and for¬
warded to the Committee on Anthropological Research in Museums which has been
sponsored by the American Anthropological Association and the Wenner-Gren
Foundation. More than one thousand specimens were photographed, filed according
to accession number and classified according to type and culture area.

Loans were made to thirteen university, school and gallery organizations,
including three to Expo ’67.

The Department received approximately 180 gifts, a number of which are of
major significance. Needless to say it looks forward to the time when it will be able
to show Canadians and foreign visitors alike much more of its very valuable material.
With this in mind it was a source of great satisfaction that the Display Department
undertook to redesign the present galleries which have, through lack of money,

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remained untouched for nearly three decades. A most stimulating model was made
and photographed with a view to interesting a benefactor in this long overdue
reorganization. It is a source of profound disquiet that even our many thousands
of children who visit the Museum cannot experience through the galleries this aspect
of Canada’s culture.

The Department co-operated with the National Film Board in Montreal in the
preparation of film strips to be distributed throughout schools in Canada, the United
States and Europe. Two of these films were made during the year, one showing the
life and customs of the Subarctic Indians and the other those of the Plains Indians.
The Department did the research for this and used its own collections.

The public has continued to draw heavily on the resources of the Department.
Expo ’67, the Centennial Train, small historical museums, public libraries, the CBC,
publishers and other universities all profited, as indeed they should. The growing
interest in primitive art and the increased number of private collectors creates much
enjoyable work for the staff. At the request of the Ontario College of Art, a display
of specially selected material was arranged for the benefit of students.

In all, sixteen talks were given at the unveiling of plaques for the Ontario
Archaeological and Historic Sites Board, for television, radio and other agencies. The
Curator also gave two papers and attended eleven conferences. Father Trudeau of
St. Paul’s University, Ottawa, and the Curator have initiated the planning of a
meeting next fall of university and government personnel involved in Indian research
projects to discuss mutual plans and their work. An integrated programme of research,
designed for a five-year period and involving ethno-biological field-work, was sub¬
mitted to the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests. Miss Loraine Spencer has,
for the past eight months, been engaged on a Bibliography of the Patricias, Ontario,
which now amounts to nearly one thousand titles and is near completion. The
Department continued its customary services to graduate students and the University
in general.

One of the most encouraging developments was the formation of a Committee
for Arctic and Subarctic Research which had been requested by the federal govern¬
ment. On the request of the Research Board, the Director served as chairman and
the Curator as secretary. The Curator also acted as consultant for five other organiza¬
tions and for the fourth year continued his work on the Parry Island project. A grant
from the Committee for Arctic and Subarctic Research enabled him to initiate a
project on the Webique Indians. A colouring book for children entitled Canadian
Indians appeared and six more serious publications are in course of writing.

European Department

Mr. Hickl-Szabo, Assistant Curator-in-charge, reports that the main activity of
the year was the complete renovation of the Armour Court, as a result of which this
important and handsome area, the first seen by a visitor to the Museum, creates a
distinguished impression. The fine collection of arms and armour is also properly
visible for the first time. The watch collection was properly arranged and displayed
in lighted cases, as also a case of Chinese export-wares.

The staff of the Department has been busy preparing for future exhibitions such
as Glass and Iron and Prized Possessions and active in research for publications. Miss
Ferguson has worked on the watches and clocks, on a group of painters at the Derby
Factory as illustrated by objects in the Museum’s collection and on the whole collec¬
tion of arms and armour. We gratefully acknowledge the help of the Conservation
Department, the carpenters and preparators in creating this gallery at a time when
they were under considerable pressure for other work.

Mr. Brett continued his research on the history of English pottery for his third
book which will deal with the Museum’s collection of English wares. This early
pottery is one of the strong points of the collection which has hitherto not received
its due recognition. The Assistant Curator-in-charge has worked on an article entitled
the “Iconography of The Fall of Man,” some preliminary investigation of the fine
Romanesque capital presented by Mrs. John David Eaton in 1964 and, of course, on

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the arms and armour. It is natural that this Department should be called upon to
answer many questions from the public, a service which it renders with pleasure and
which occasionally results in valuable additions to the collections.

The staff of the Department gave a total of forty lectures during the year. Mr.
Brett’s second book Dinner is Served, which deals with eating habits in England from
the Middle Ages to 1900, is now in the press and he has published two articles. Miss
Ferguson has written one article and Mr. Hickl-Szabo has completed four, one of
which, on “Stained Glass Panels” in the Museum, will appear in Rotunda, the new
R.O.M. Bulletin.

Arnonsr the 22 accessions most notable was the collection from the Miss Aileen

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Larkin Bequest. It is a source of great regret that the Museum was not able to take
advantage of a number of very fine opportunities to acquire excellent material for
relatively small outlay due to the inadequate purchase fund. Such opportunities are
becoming increasingly rare and Canada is the loser. The European Department is in
need of considerable financial support to help it raise its collections to a higher level
and to fill serious gaps. It is, at times, difficult to convince the public of the urgency
of this task.

Far Eastern Departme?it

Mr. Trubner reports that this year, although lacking the excitement and constant
pressure of a large exhibition, enabled the Department to catch up with postponed
research and projects. Work continued on recataloguing the extensive storage collec¬
tions, and on making the card catalogue hie consistent by transferring all information
to large format cards.

The Department’s new acquisitions, gifts as well as purchases, were catalogued
and placed on exhibition.

Mrs. Murray Bell again worked in the Department during the year, continuing
the mounting and labelling of record photographs of Museum objects and compara¬
tive material in other collections. The photographic reference hie has grown over the
years and now contains approximately 1,000 photographs which are invaluable to
the staff, students working on research projects and visitors. As in former years, most
appreciated help and assistance has also been provided by Mrs. Frank H. Ferris,
Jr., for which the Department is deeply grateful.

Considerable additions were also made to the Department’s expanding slide
collection which is one of the basic tools required for the teaching of courses on East
Asian art at the University. Among the major additions were sets of slides of Indian
bronze images and representative examples chosen from the renowned collection
of His Majesty King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden.

Mr. Trubner and Mrs. Stephen were both invited to participate in the week-
long international symposium on Asian Art, held at the M. H. de Young Museum,
San Francisco, to mark the opening of the Avery Brundage Wing of Oriental Art,
which houses Mr. Brundage’s renowned collection. The symposium drew scholars
from all over the world.

Mr. Trubner wrote a review article for the May, 1967, issue of Antiques.

The entire curatorial staff of the Far Eastern Department, including Mrs.
Motamedi, former curatorial assistant, collaborated in the writing of the catalogue
entries for the International Fine Arts exhibition Man and His World at Expo ’67,
published by the National Gallery, Ottawa. The Far Eastern Department lent one of
its major Chinese stone sculptures to the exhibition. Both Mr. Trubner and Mrs.
Stephen attended the official opening of the exhibition on April 27.

In January, 1967, the Far Eastern Department Library received an important
and major gift of rare books on various aspects of Japanese art. These expensive
books were purchased in Japan by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and presented by
Mr. Rvoko Ishikawa, Consul General of Japan, in Toronto, at an intimate ceremony
held in the Library of the Far Eastern Department.

Several important gifts of objects have been given to the Department during the
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inlaid lacquer cabinet of the Momoyama period (1573-1615), the gift of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank H. Ferris, Jr., and a group of early Korean pottery, Sill a period, fifth to
tenth century, the generous gift of Mrs. George G. R. Harris.

In view of last year’s major effort with the Art Treasures from Japan exhibition,
the Department held no special exhibition during the fiscal year, 1966-67. An agree¬
ment was, however, made with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the other
participating Museums to allow a very important travelling exhibition, The Nasli
and Alice Heeramaneck Collection of Indian and Nepalese Art to be shown early in
1968. Formal arrangements for this were completed early in 1967, and preparations
for the installation and display of the exhibition, which will be on view from January
22 to March 10, 1968, have already begun.

Mr. Trubner, cross-appointed in the University’s Department of East Asian
Studies, taught the University’s fall term of East Asian Studies 331/431, an honour
course on The Art and Archaeology of East Asia. This was devoted to “The Buddhist
Art of India,” followed by “The Buddhist Art of China and Japan” in the spring
term, the latter taught by Professor H. Y. Shih, thus completing the year’s programme
devoted to the Buddhist art of Asia. This and other services as examiner add to the
resources of the University.

The academic staff wrote a number of articles and reviews.

Ten accessions of significance entered the Museum’s collection and the Depart¬
ment repeats its appreciation of the kindness of Mrs. Ferris and Mrs. Harris, both of
whom have directed their generosity with an awareness of those areas in the collec¬
tions which need strengthening. The Museum will greatly miss the enthusiasm,
connoisseurship and interest which Mrs. Ferris has shown over the years she has
been associated with it.

Invariably, every year, other institutions make heavy demands for loans from the
Far Eastern collection to major exhibitions. Whenever feasible, the Department is
happy to lend to other museums and art galleries, so that our collections may become
better known outside Toronto. A major loan of objects from the Yuan Dynasty
(1280-1368) has been promised to the Cleveland Museum of Art for 1968, for an
important exhibition, the first of its kind devoted to the arts of the Mongol Dynasty.
During 1966-67 the Department authorized more than 76 loans.

Mrs. Motamedi left the Museum in November to rejoin her husband in Kabul.
Her position will be filled from July, 1967, by Miss Doris Dohrenwend, a graduate
student at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. She is expected to complete
her requirements for the Ph.D. degree in Fine Arts before coming to Toronto to
join the staff as curatorial assistant.

Miss Chung, who replaced Miss Glyn as Department technician, resigned to
return to secretarial work, and was succeeded by Miss Candace Coates.

Three hundred books, pamphlets and periodicals were added to the collection
and the library now contains 7,986 volumes, including serials. All volumes in the
Mu Library have now been removed to the Department of East Asian Studies,
leaving a small number of works on art and archaeology which have not been
included in the above total. Two hundred and sixty-eight titles were catalogued. One
hundred and two slides have been accessioned, making a total of 8,402.

Greek and Roman Department

Preliminary to a planned rearrangement and improvement of some of the
gallery exhibits, Mrs. Leipen, Associate Curator-in-charge, has done research on the
Coptic and other early Christian material. The excellent quality of this material,
primarily bronzes, pottery, and wood and bone objects, merits a more attractive
installation which is now in progress in the small Coptic Room. Miss Harle, Cura¬
torial Assistant, studied and re-catalogued the major part of the collection in the
Romano-British gallery, particularly the pottery, jewellery and the bronze and iron
implements.

On the invitation of the American School of Classical Studies, Agora Excava¬
tions, Mrs. Leipen collaborated on one of the series of monographs reporting on

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Display of pottery from the Loch Collection of Cypriote
Antiquities exhibited in memory of the late
Lionel Massey.

the finds from the Athenian Agora. She spent July and August 1966 on the site in
Athens classifying the “small finds” of bronze to be included in a comprehensive
volume on Small Finds in general.

A special exhibition of the Loch Collection of Cypriote Antiquities, was held
from October 17 to December 26, 1966, in memory of the late Lionel Massey through
whose good offices in 1965 this generous gift of about three hundred exquisite pieces
of Cypriote pottery, sculpture, terracottas, glass and jewellery found a welcome home
in the R.O.M. An illustrated catalogue, written by Neda Leipen, accompanied the
exhibition. She also directed and supervised the installation of the show.

Three of the Graeco-Roman mummy portraits from Egypt were sent on loan
to the Detroit Institute of Arts to form part of a comprehensive special exhibition of
Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt.

Mrs. Leipen gave two talks, and in addition to the major publication of the
catalogue of The Loch Collection of Cypriote Antiquities, also wrote “Small Finds
from the Athenian Agora” for Meeting Place in the Varsity Graduate, Summer,
1967.

A desperate scraping of the bottom of the shallow barrel of R.O.M. purchase
funds enabled the Department to acquire a Roman mosaic panel from Syria, 3rd-
4th century a.d. — a notable addition to its collections. The only other acquisitions
this year were a small bronze figure of Eros and some pieces of pottery.

As usual the Department has dealt with innumerable inquiries by scholars,
students, publishers and members of the public. A large number of objects brought
to the Museum were inspected and identified — a welcome duty and service.

Department of Philately

Mr. Douglas Patrick has continued to enrich the Museum with his enthusiasm,
expertise and persuasive good humour. As a result, the collections increased by $600
worth of Canadian stamps kindly contributed by members of the Canadian Stamp
Dealers’ Association. These stamps bring the collection up to date from 1947 to 1967.

Work progressed on re-mounting the Canada collection to the 160-page limit
in one case. Overflow materials will be mounted on album pages supplied by a friend
who prefers that his thoughtful donation of $60 shall remain anonymous.

Changing displays in the small area off the lower rotunda have drawn many
enthusiasts to enjoy the scarce or rare stamps displayed there.

Outstanding exhibits since July, 1966, included Disinfected Mail from 1485 to
1850, Israel Rarities from Harry Zif kin’s Collection, and Austrian Christmas Cancels.
A loan collection of Academy of Medicine Swiss Stamps was shown in February
1967, and Rare Canadian Coil Postage for Vending Machines and Old Cork
Canadian Cancels complete the year’s displays.

Mr. Patrick co-operated in a radio programme with Dr. E. S. Rogers, Curator
of Ethnology, on “Beaver Pelts” which was later converted to a Globe & Mail story.

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Articles on all the exhibitions appeared in the same newspaper, and there is no
doubt that Mr. Patrick’s lively radio talks and articles bring many visitors to the
Museum. It would be of great value to the Museum to have a more worthy area in
which to show the stamp collections.

Textile Department

For the past year the activities of this Department have concentrated on two
major projects: Modesty to Mod , the Centennial Exhibition of costumes worn in
Canada, and research in the field of Canadian textiles.

In April, 1966, an application to the Centennial Commission was prepared by
Mrs. Brett and Mrs. Downie, on three days’ notice, for a grant of $8,500 for the
exhibition and for a worthy catalogue to accompany it. In September the grant was
approved. During July, while on leave of absence without pay, Mrs. Brett designed
the exhibition, selected the costumes to be shown and planned their arrangement. In
September, in consultation with Mr. Harley Parker, the design was finalized. A
number of costumes of the later periods (after 1850) had to be excluded through
lack of space. The mounting of all costumes not previously photographed was begun
and photography continued until the end of December.

Following the announcement of the award of a Centennial Grant in October,
Mrs. Brett went to England for two weeks to spend one week at the Gallery of
English Costume in Manchester which houses the Cunnington collection of English
Costume, the most important of its kind in England and the one most closely related
to our own collection. Displays of costumes in the Victoria and Albert Museum and
the Assembly Rooms in Bath (the Boris Langley Moore Collection) were studied
with a fresh eye and particularly for hints on how not to display costume!

The Centennial Commission had recommended that the catalogue should be
bilingual and a decision was reached to translate the preface, general introduction,
introductions to each of the ten sections which together covered the period from
about 1780 to 1967, and the captions for the illustrations, but not the descriptions of
individual costumes. All loan material to be included in the catalogue arrived on
schedule and this part of the catalogue was completed by the deadline date — the
first week in January 1967. By the first week in February the descriptions of 100 of
the most important costumes in the show were completed and eight costumes (six of
which had to be remounted) had been photographed in colour against drapery
backgrounds — one of the most gruelling and acrobatic sessions in the whole under¬
taking for Mr. Warren, Mrs. Zoubek and Mrs. Brett.

Not until nearly the last week in February was it possible to move the accumula¬
tion of costume mounts and mounting materials into the upper part of the Exhibition
Hall. At the same time carpentry and painting also began. The colours in each section
were chosen in consultation with Mr. Parker who happily suggested drapery as a
background for the 1839-59 section.

Mrs. Brett composed labels, mounted underwear and other accessories on panels
and generally supervised the installation. Mrs. Zoubek made a systematic search
through the catalogue cards for all costume accessories in the collection which were
Canadian or were worn in Canada. When, in September, the idea of a collage of
mod clothes proved possible she readily made this her special project and it was
entirely due to her efforts that gifts and loans of mod clothing from local boutiques
were obtained and assembled including, finally, the “turn-on” dress. She designed
and carried out the collage. She also devised and made the system of wire “silhouette”
heads for mounting dresses with hats and head-dresses and also did much of the
mounting of dresses for photography and for the show.

Mrs. Burnham rejoined the Department in September, part-time on certificate;
she first completed the pattern drafts which, because of the Centennial Grant, could
now be included in the catalogue and also prepared the essential notes on each
pattern. She mounted a group of dresses of the 1925-29 period against figures drawn
from contemporary fashion plates and fashion plate settings derived from a set of
fashion plates in the Department, and helped with the mounting of costumes.

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Left, Mrs. Brett prepares a display of underclothing for
Modesty to Mod, the Centennial Exhibition of costumes
worn in Canada. At right, women’s costumes at the time
of Confederation.

Through the kind offices of our Women’s Group, the Department obtained some
valuable illustrative material at about the last moment.

Mrs. Jarvie pressed costumes and accessories, almost all of it delicate work. Mrs.
Zuppinger was almost entirely occupied in mending and conservation, beginning in
the spring of 1966; at least four dresses required major conservation, skilled work
which took many weeks to complete. Mr. Burnham was responsible for the selection
of Indian material and the arrangement and labelling of that case and the group
of Currelly material. It was also on his suggestion that the projections were related
to that material rather than to the fashion plates of 1867. The throwing of projections
on the curved wall of the stairway was Mr. Warren’s idea. Mrs. Holdford mounted
all the men’s costumes. Mrs. Priverts did all the typing necessary for the catalogue
and labels. The Department’s two volunteers, Mrs. Donald and Mrs. Kilgour, gave
most valuable assistance throughout all the preparations, and they were joined by
Mrs. Purchase. The exhibition was the outcome of devoted work by Museum and
volunteer staff and a worthy contribution to Centennial Year.

Meanwhile, in the spring of 1966 Mr. Burnham had been awarded a Senior
Fellowship by the Canada Council for research on textiles made and used in Canada
before 1900. The research was planned in four phases, of which three have been
completed during the current year. In the summer of 1966 he spent three months
in Quebec and the Atlantic Provinces on the first phase, and in the autumn of that
year visited museums in New York, Boston and Harvard University. Early in 1967, he
travelled across Canada to British Columbia and returned through the northern
United States, visiting museums and making detailed studies of the Canadian and
related material in their collections. The final phase of this research will be completed
in the summer of 1967.

In the course of the year, detailed information, supported by photographs, has
been added to the central file on Ontario textiles covering 53 items, and to the file
on Canadian textiles covering 394 items. In addition, photographs and notes were
made on a wide range of equipment.

Apart from the exhibition 722 textiles and costume items were acquired and 525
catalogued. Naturally this work has fallen somewhat behind because of the time
and effort required for the costume exhibition. The new storage area in the Pre¬
history Gallery has been used as temporary storage space for Canadian costumes and
accessories and mounting material to be used for the costume exhibition. Mrs. Jarvie
blocked 37 pieces of lace and eight pieces of various kinds were mounted by Mrs.
Zuppinger. Mr. Burnham laundered twenty textiles.

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This year the Department has been flooded with inquiries for information on
costume worn in Canada during the last hundred years and not covered by the
folders Costumes for Canada’s Birthday (the Museum’s bestseller) prepared by
Mrs. Burnham. Most of them came in autumn and early winter, many from areas far
from a public library and from every corner of the country. These received particular
attention. Numerous visitors came to the Department to study actual costumes which
they proposed to copy for their centennial projects. One dress of about 1900 was
mounted, photographed and lent to the Ontario Pavilion at Expo ’67.

Early in 1967, at the request of members of the staff of the Textile Museum,
Washington, a brief study was made by Mr. Burnham of all the Chinese rugs and
Chinese ancestor portraits showing rugs in the Museum’s collections.

While in England Mrs. Brett examined new additions to the Victoria and Albert
Museum’s collection of Indian chintzes and reviewed parts of the typescript of
descriptions of chintzes of the catalogue raisonne of Indian chintzes at present being
prepared by her and Mr. John Irwin, the Keeper of the Indian Department of that
Museum.

Other minor exhibitions included a display of Canadian Textiles and Weaving
Equipment arranged in three cases which temporarily enclose the Pre-history storage
area, a display of Canadian Weaving and Quilts, mostly new acquisitions, set up in
the Ontario Textile Gallery and the Small Textile Gallery and a display of American
textiles in the Small Textile Gallery.

Members of the staff gave 39 lectures and classes. Mrs. Priverts made a number
of most useful translations from German and Russian.

The Textile Department’s rich accretions of gifts from its many friends is an
enviable record and one which reflects the interest of the public and the enthusiasm
of the staff. How delightful it would be to be able to show the collection more
adequately and provide better working conditions for the curators and their helpers!
Mrs. Edgar Stone continued her generous gifts, notably in the field of oriental
textiles, and the whole Department must be congratulated on a most productive
and successful year.

West Asian Department

Dr. Cuyler Young, Assistant Curator-in-charge, reports that the West Asian
Department was created in October, 1966, part way through the period covered by
this report. Thus, much of this report represents a continuation of activities begun
by the old Near Eastern Department under Miss W. Needier. It is fitting to include
a word of thanks to all those concerned with the implementation of the decision to
divide the old Near Eastern Department into the Egyptian and West Asian Depart¬
ments. The administrative and physical chores involved in the division took much
time and effort but the fullest co-operation from all involved resulted in a minimum
of wasted time. The result in nine months has been a good start to a new department.

The reconstruction of the West Asian departmental office and work space began
late in November, 1966, and has not yet been completed in full. Inevitably this has
had a slightly disruptive effect on the work of the Department. As always, more
space is needed, and the pinch will be particularly painful from September, 1967,
when two more full-time staff members must be housed. Indeed, if more work and
office space is not found within the coming fiscal year, some curtailment of the
activity of the Department must be envisaged.

Plans for the installation of a comprehensive display covering the prehistory
of the Near East, to be undertaken in co-operation with the Egyptian Department
and mentioned in the annual report of the Near Eastern Department for 1965-66,
have been in a state of suspended animation due to the slow pace of reconstructing
the offices of this Department and the study rooms of the Greek and Roman Depart¬
ment. The space allocated for this display is directly involved in that reconstruction
but it is hoped that the display can be completed next year. Minor changes have
been made in the Palestine gallery and a small display of recent acquisitions is now
in preparation.

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A good start has been made on die reorganization and expansion of the Depart¬
ment’s slide collection. Approximately 450 slides have been mounted, many of them
new additions to the collection. A major project has been the continuing effort to
recatalogue into the new card system those objects originally catalogued only in
ledger form. Thanks to the co-operation of the Registration Department under Miss
Hecken, some 200 items have been processed. The Department’s sherd library has
been reorganized, stored and labelled.

A small collection of display and study items from the Jerusalem excavations
was added to the Palestine collection. Several objects, notably a fine pottery vessel
dating to approximately 5000 b.c., were added to the collection from the Godin Tepe
excavations conducted by the Department and the Office of the Chief Archaeologist.
A complete ceramic sequence of sherds from this important site was added to the
Department’s sherd library. A modest purchase grant brought to the collection seven
items including some valuable Amlash Culture figurines.

The sherd collection from Godin Tepe has made possible exchanges of sherd
material with both the Peabody Museum, Harvard University and the Oriental
Institute of the University of Chicago. These exchanges have greatly enhanced the
Department’s sherd library which is now the best teaching and study collection of
sherd material from Western Asia in Canada. Continued growth at this pace will
put it in the front rank of sherd collections in North America. Such a collection is
the sine qua non of graduate teaching in West Asian archaeology.

No active field work was undertaken in the past year. However, considerable
effort went into the sorting, classification and analysis of the finds from the 1965
R.O.M. excavations at Godin Tepe and in planning, in co-operation with the Office
of the Chief Archaeologist, for large-scale excavations at this site in the summer of
1967. Since this is the first full-scale season of excavation at Godin Tepe, major
equipment purchases and all long-range planning for the coming four years have
been a heavy departmental responsibility.

Dr. Young delivered some 26 lectures in the University course History 200-220
(History of Ancient Western Asia) in the undergraduate programme of the Depart¬
ment of Near Eastern Studies, University College. He also gave a seminar in the
School of Graduate Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies, on The Archae¬
ology of Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Iran. The students in this course, as a part of
their studies, made a major contribution to the work of the new West Asian Depart¬
ment by assisting in the analysis of excavated materials from Godin Tepe and by
classifying sherd materials received from the Peabody Museum and the Oriental
Institute.

Dr. Young wrote two articles under his own name alone and three others in
collaboration with P. E. L. Smith and D. B. Stronach.

Department of Geology

According to the Curator, Dr. W. M. Tovell, the period covered in this annual
report marks a distinct upward swing in the fortunes of the Department. On Sep¬
tember 15, Miss Jean Fraser joined the staff as senior technician and in February,
Dr. John McAndrews accepted an appointment as associate curator, from July, 1967,
as palynologist.

Miss Fraser, assisted by Dr. Peter Peach, the Research Associate of the Depart¬
ment, have made excellent progress in upgrading the systematic petrographic col¬
lection. They have processed some 10,000 specimens and initiated a fresh catalogue.
This has been undertaken because of the very complex numbering systems hitherto
in use as a result of the numerous exchanges that have taken place within the
Museum. Numbering systems on the specimens were, in part, derived from old
geological collections, old mineralogical collections, and new geological and mineral-
ogical collections. All material is being renumbered.

Dr. McAndrews will add a new dimension to the geological work, not only to
the Museum, but also to the Province of Ontario. His interests in paleo-climates will
make a significant contribution to research programmes in glacial and post-glacial

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climatic environments of Ontario. It is anticipated that he will start work with
material already at hand, and particularly the cores obtained from the Georgian Bay
area.

In the field, the Department has continued its study of glacial lake levels in
the Sault Ste. Marie, Georgian Bay and Lake Huron regions, and organized a special
3-day operation to obtain cores from the bottom of Georgian Bay. The Great Lakes
Institute made the research vessel C.C.G.S. Porte Dauphine available, and the
Geological Survey of Canada allowed Dr. C. F. M. Lewis to co-operate in the
venture. This was the first investigation of the bottom materials in an interesting
and impoi'tant area of the Great Lakes.

A small, temporary exhibition on granite was arranged at the exit of the Geology
galleries.

The Department attracts much public attention and it identified numerous
specimens for the public and answered numerous queries from teachers, students
and the public in general.

It conducted for the University a series of evening tutorial classes on Geology
in the Museum and for the Department of Geology its annual Geology Survey Camp
at Tweed, Ontario. Also for the University it contributed the Geology Course 100
to first year general students (4 hours per week) and contributed to the Pleistocene
Geology course for fourth-year civil engineers, in the Faculty of Applied Science
and Engineering (5 hours total). For the College of Education it conducted the
Type B Seminar course in Geology (for high school teachers) and gave lectures to
outside societies on Some Aspects of the Niagara Escarpment. The Curator attended
the annual meeting of the Geological Association of Canada, and led field trips
to the Albion Hills Conservation Area and the Boyd Conservation Area for the
Ontario Geography Teachers’ Association, the Hamilton secondary schools (Grade
13) geography students, and the Desk and Derrick Club. Three school lectures were
given and a number of miscellaneous addresses.

The Curator served on ten boards and published six articles.

McLaughlin Planetarium

Dr. H. C. King, Curator, took up his duties on October 20, 1966, and immedi¬
ately assumed responsibility for the staffing and planning of this complicated
undertaking. He reports that he has recruited eight members of his staff- on either
full or part-time basis. Some start on July 1, some later as the planetarium progresses,
and some go to the Zeiss-Jena in Germany for training. It is a source of great satis¬
faction that it has been possible to assemble a most promising team in a field where
good staff are very difficult to find.

However, owing to the difficulty of obtaining the services of a suitably qualified
associate curator, it has been decided temporarily to leave this post vacant and
appoint a second assistant curator. Another curatorial assistant and a technician
(electronics) will be appointed in due course.

Meetings with the project engineers and consulting architects have resulted in
a number of interior changes, e.g. the redesign of bookshop and optical workshop, a
larger main lobby, an additional (larger) kitchen, the reorientation of the spiral
staircase in the north wing, and an over-all change in concept regarding the nature
of finishes in the display areas. At the time of writing a strike has held up the con¬
struction for six weeks but it is hoped that this will soon be settled and the work
return to schedule.

An outline plan for the nature and scope of the exhibits in the display areas
has been prepared and discussed with consultants in design and communications.
Competitive tenders for the detailed design, fabrication and installation were invited.
The contract has been awarded to Opus International Limited, Toronto. That the
construction of these important galleries was possible is due to yet another generous
gift from Colonel McLaughlin (see Director’s Report).

Outline plans for furnishings, fitments, machinery (for Mechanical Workshop)
and the lock-system have been made in consultation with the appropriate University

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departments. A study has been made of the different types and availabilities of
supplementary slide and film projectors, equipment for the sound-recording and
photographic rooms, and slides, films and astronomical photographs. Several of these
items have been ordered.

A measure of the extent to which the Planetarium can assist the work of the
University’s Graduate Department of Astronomy has been ascertained. The special
lectures envisaged could provide first-class training for both students and planetarium
curatorial staff.

The contribution which the Planetarium can make to public school education
has been discussed with several educational authorities at various levels. The con¬
clusion is that the Planetarium has only to offer an initial set of demonstrations on
aspects of elementary astronomy to be assured of the full support of schools over a
large area. Initially, it will be left to the Planetarium to guide teachers regarding
the provision of suitable class preparation and follow-up activity. Subsequently these
activities, together with the Planetarium educational sessions, will be arranged in
consultation with teachers and/or heads of science departments.

Decisions have been reached regarding admissions and basic scheduling. The
latter is designed to meet five main requirements: organized parties of students in
two separate streams — Primary (Grades 3-6), and Junior (Grades 7-9) ; adults and
students above Grades 9 or 10, whether attending singly or in organized parties. It
will serve the Graduate Department of Astronomy, operating alone or in collaboration
with other similar departments in the University or neighbouring universities, also
groups interested in navigation; a wide variety of special events of a scientific and
social nature; and finally, instrument-free staff-training time. (The last of these will
make heavy demands during the first year of operation.)

The planned schedule permits an initial run of about 25 sessions per seven-day
week, with a potential increase to a maximum of forty sessions.

Merchandise for the Planetarium bookshop has been discussed and selected
in co-operation with Mrs. R. E. Smith of the Sales Desk. A sales agreement has
been made with the California Institute of Technology for the purchase in quantity
at cost price of colour slides, photographs, booklets, and postcards prepared under
the auspices of the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories. This is the first retail
sales-agreement between the Observatories and a Canadian planetarium.

The Toronto Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada has agreed
to operate the telescope-making room of the Planetarium and has accepted the offer
to hold its regular meetings in the Planetarium’s lecture room. We have received, and
will continue to receive, the fullest possible co-operation and support of the Centre
and also of the National Committee of the R.A.S.C.

A Planetarium brochure, planned as an inexpensive adjunct, is in course of
preparation. The copy, now completed, runs to about 26,000 words and includes
material to accompany about fifty illustrations.

The Curator has given five lectures on the subject of the McLaughlin Plane¬
tarium and has made three television appearances. He visited the Queen Elizabeth
Planetarium, Edmonton, also three major planetariums and several science museums
and observatories in Southern California, prepared an initial list of 150 books, charts
and maps for the Planetarium Library and Information Centre, and established
numerous personal contacts in areas important to the successful establishment and
development of the Planetarium. He was given the cross-appointment of Special
Lecturer in the Department of Astronomy, is a member of the Advisory Committee
on Astronomy and Space Science set up by the Ontario Department of Education,
and recently completed the book Pictorial Guide to the Stars, scheduled for publica¬
tion in July, 1967.

Last, but by no means least, the wholehearted thanks of the Museum are due
to Colonel McLaughlin for his most generous gift of one million dollars to establish
a I rust Fund, the income from which will enable the Planetarium to provide a
lively, frequently changing programme oi a standard which other planetariums will
find it difficult to match.

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The Chief Mineralogist

Dr. V. B. Meen reports that he spent most of the year in collating the data
acquired on the crown jewels of Iran with the generous support of Birks Family
Foundation, Montreal. This work has been assisted by the two research associates,
Messrs. G. G. Waite and E. B. Tiff any. In collaboration with Dr. A. D. Tushingham,
the manuscript for a major publication on the subject is being prepared for publica¬
tion by the University of Toronto Press, again with the support of the same
Foundation.

The examination and recataloguing of the gems in our collection continued
with the assistance of Mr. G. G. Waite.

Dr. Meen gave a total of eight lectures on the crown jewels and worked on the
re-display of the Museum’s gem collection which will form part of the new Miner¬
alogy Gallery. Fie made a television appearance on “The Royal Ontario Museum’s
Study of the Crown Jewels of Iran,” and attended two professional meetings. He
also published two articles.

The gem collection received seven stones from Mr. W. S. Richardson, House
of Onyx (Canada) Ltd., to whom it is most indebted, but unfortunately the most
important opportunity to acquire a magnificent morganite example had to be sacri¬
ficed for lack of purchase funds.

Continuing his work on the Planetarium until the arrival in the fall of the
newly appointed Curator, Dr. Henry King, Dr. Meen spent considerable time in
consultation with Professor D. A. MacRae, Department of Astronomy, the engineers
and architects and the Superintendent of the University of Toronto in forwarding
the affairs of the McLaughlin Planetarium. This he now hands over with good
wishes, and the Museum for its part thanks Dr. Meen for the very considerable work
and enthusiasm which he put into a project so far removed from his own immediate
field of interest. That the preparations have gone so well is due to his devotion to
a difficult task.

Department of Mineralogy

Dr. Mandarino, Curator, reports that the 1966-67 academic year brought
important changes to his Department. Dr. D. C. Harris, Assistant Curator, resigned
after almost four years of service to the R.O.M. He left to accept a position in the
federal government where he receives a much higher salary and where he has all
the essential research equipment at his disposal. Mrs. Ruth Gallant, as Technical
Assistant, joined the permanent staff.

A major factor in the future development of the Department was the receipt of a
generous $25,000 grant from the President of the University of Toronto. The money,
which was made available from the Merrill Trust, has enabled the Department to
purchase sorely needed X-ray spectrographic equipment. The installation of this
equipment, which is expected to be completed in July, 1967, will bring to the ROM
its first modern tool for non-destructive chemical analysis.

Although most research in the Department was curtailed because of curatorial
commitments and the demands made on the staff by the construction of the new
gallery, J. A. Mandarino and D. C. Harris continued their work on the minerals on
Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec. A paper, co-authored by Drs. Mandarino and Harris,
Dr. G. Chao and Mr. A. Hounslow of Carleton University and Dr. G. Perrault of
Ecole Polvtechnique, is in press.

The Curator initiated a study of the quantitative determination of colour in
mineral powders, using the reflectance spectrophotometer acquired by the Museum’s
Department of Ornithology. The initial measurements have proved interesting and
it is hoped that this line of research will be pursued after the gallery has been
completed.

The Department’s major field project was a one and a half month collecting
trip which covered parts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec, resulting in
many specimens both for the collections and for exchange.

The staff contributed two papers to the eleventh annual meeting of the Miner-

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alogical Association of Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in addition the Curator
gave four lectures on “The ROM’s New Gallery of Mineralogy,” and a two-hour
lecture on “The Functions of the Museum’s Department of Mineralogy” to the
Advanced Prospectors course of the Ontario Department of Mines.

The Department again carried out the three-year mineralogy course for the
Junior Field Naturalists. Dr. D. C. Harris, Dr. D. H. Gorman and Mrs. Helen Bush
ably carried out the instructional duties. The annual field trip was led by J. A.
Mandarino, assisted by Mrs. Bush and Mr. Pawlik.

It is pleasing to report that the new Gallery of Mineralogy, financed by the
International Nickel Company, is nearing completion. It is scheduled to be opened
on November 13, 1967.

Three scientific papers were published.

Following the work on the new gallery, for the first time in many years the
“cream” of the Department’s collection was selected for display. This showed some
gaps in our holdings and led to a search for suitable material to fill them. Among
the most important additions to the collection are the following: a large spinel
crystal from New York; an exceptional apatite crystal from Portugal; a beautiful
felted mass of cuprite (variety, chalcotrichite) from Southwest Africa; a fine group
of twinned cerussite crystals from Southwest Africa; a pink smithsonite crystal group
from Southwest Africa; and a large blue topaz crystal from Brazil. In addition, about
two dozen species new to the collection were obtained. The result should be a fine
comprehensive display most attractively exhibited.

The Curator continued his abstracting of papers dealing with mineralogical
nomenclature, acted as assessor for papers in learned journals and wrote the mineral
section of a Department of Tourism publication entitled Rocks and Minerals in
Ontario which is in the press.

As usual, the public submitted approximately 300 specimens for identification
this year. In addition, numerous requests for research material were received from
mineralogists throughout the world.

The Chief Biologist

Dr. L. S. Russell reports that he spent about six weeks in July and August in
the Atlantic Provinces, mostly in the Bay of Fundy region of New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia. The object was to explore the possibilities of obtaining fossils from the
Triassic rocks of this area. Fragmentary remains of early reptiles have been obtained
from here by the Nova Scotia Museum. The search was concentrated in the area
of the Annapolis Valley adjacent to Minas Basin. The Permian rocks of Prince
Edward Island were also examined. No important specimens were found, but
information that would be useful for future expeditions was obtained. It was con¬
cluded that intensive collecting at the appropriate time of the year would probably
yield valuable material. While in the Annapolis Valley, some historical investigations
were carried on regarding the work of the pioneer Nova Scotian geologist and
inventor, Dr. Abraham Gerner. A short visit was made to Newfoundland to assess
the effect of the newly finished Trans-Canada Highway on the possibilities of
biological and geological field work in that province.

A number of palaeontological studies were completed during the year, the most
important being a report on the fossils obtained from the Swan Hills area of Alberta
by the expedition of 1965. Other materials studied included the skull of a primi¬
tive whale from the Oligocene rocks of Vancouver Island, a collection of fossil
shells from Alberta and Montana, and a fossil barnacle from the Cretaceous of
Saskatchewan.

Dr. Russell gave a lecture on “Palaeontology of the Swan Hills Area, North
Central Alberta” (Royal Society of Canada, Sec. Ill, Geology), and an informal
report on the correlation of Cretaceous mammal-bearing formations in western
North America.

As part of the University’s teaching programme, three lectures were given in
the course on Vertebrate Palaeontology for fourth year and graduate students in

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Zoology, and eleven in the course on Vertebrate Palaeontology for third year students
in Geology. A practical course on the techniques of vertebrate palaeontology was
given to a fourth year student in Geology, with the assistance of the laboratory staff
of the Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology.

The constant effort to improve Museum teaching facilities resulted in the
addition of two further specimen cabinets to house the teaching collection. These
cabinets were generously donated by the Department of Geological Sciences and the
Department of Zoology.

The Chief Biologist represented the Museum at the Centennial Celebration of
the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, October 26-28, and at
the conference of the Directors of Systematic Collections, Field Museum of Natural
History, Chicago, April 19-21. He also undertook research into the Museum’s pro¬
posed training programme and prepared an outline proposal.

The artist-craftsman prepared art work and illustrations for the Departments
of Mammalogy, Ichthyology. Invertebrate Palaeontology, and Vertebrate Palae¬
ontology, as well as for the Chief Biologist.

Department of Entomology and Invertebrate Zoology

Dr. Glenn B. Wiggins, Curator, reports that a major event in the past year
was the publication of Centennial of Entomology in Canada 1863-1963: A Tribute
to Edmund M. Walker. This volume, edited by the Curator, is, among other things,
a mark of appreciation from the Department to its founder and Honorary Curator.

The Curator’s work on Trichoptera this year has been heavily committed to
field studies with two major expeditions to the western United States. These are
part of a major project on the systematics of the immature stages of North American
Trichoptera supported by the National Science Foundation. The first was planned
to concentrate on the fauna of the southwestern United States and lasted from
June 15 until August 5, covering a distance of about 10,000 miles. Intensive field
work was done in Arizona in the Chiricahua Mountains and in the Verde River area,
in California in Sequoia National Park, in the Convict Creek and Hot Creek areas
of Mono County, and in the University of California’s Sagehen Creek Research
Station area (north of Lake Tahoe) and at several points in Utah.

The second trip was planned to study the fall-emerging caddisflies of the entire
western part of the United States, a segment of the fauna which is very little known.
The trip lasted from September 8 until October 23, and covered an additional 10,000
miles. Work was begun in Wyoming in the Medicine Bow Mountains, progressed
through Montana and northern Idaho to Oregon with intensive work in that state
and through most of the entire length of California. The results of these two field
expeditions combine to make this the most productive year yet experienced for
enlargement of the research collections in Trichoptera. Several thousand specimens
of both larval and adult caddisflies were collected and field observations were
obtained for a number of species.

A short period in August was also spent at the Queen’s University Biological
Station where larval stages not previously known were obtained for a genus of
T richoptera.

The Curator has been involved for much of the winter in a study of the
immature stages of the caddisfly genera Philocasca and Pseudostenopliylas in associa¬
tion with Dr. N. H. Anderson of Oregon State University. A second study of the
genus Neophylax was begun in conjunction with the Curatorial Assistant.

A supplement to the Curator’s grant from the National Science Foundation
supporting the research programme on the Trichoptera was received for the partici¬
pation of Mr. Yamamoto, the newly appointed curatorial assistant, and for the
installation of a controlled-temperature room for the rearing of these insects.

The work of our research associates has also made a substantial contribution
to the progress of the Department during the past year. Father J. C. E. Riotte, our
one research associate on permanent staff, continued his studies of Ontario Lepidop-
tera. Through his field work in the Geraldton-Nakina-Nipigon area during most

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of June, the collections of subarctic butterflies were enriched by some 300 specimens.
Father Riotte completed his study of the sphingid genus Lapara, and three papers
arising from his studies on various groups of Lepidoptera were published during the
year.

A second research associate, Mr. T. W. Beak, continued the base-line survey of
the insect larvae and other aquatic invertebrates in portions of the St. Lawrence and
Ottawa Rivers.

Another entomological project begun this year was directed at enlarging our
study collection of immature stages of the Dipt era, the two-winged flies. Particular
emphasis was given to working out associations of these immature stages with the
adults, and hence having material in the collection of known species identity. A
biology student from Queen’s University, Mr. Paul D. Herbert, was engaged upon
this project, and in addition to the general concern, he made a particularly detailed
collection of the family Empididae, a group in which the larvae are of considerable
importance in the ecology of fresh waters, but little known in a taxonomic sense.

In invertebrate zoology the manuscript for the Department’s study of Ontario
crayfishes was completed by our research associate Dr. D. W. Crocker and co-author,
Mr. D. W. Barr, a former student assistant now undertaking graduate study at
Cornell University. This work has now been accepted for publication by the Uni¬
versity of Toronto Press under a joint arrangement with the Museum as an R.O.M.
Life Sciences Miscellaneous Publication.

It is particularly satisfying to report that Dr. Ralph O. Brinkhurst, very widely
known for his studies of oligochaete worms, has been appointed as a research
associate in the Department this year.

The Department’s project on water mites was continued by a student assistant,
Mr. Ian M. Smith. This study is being concentrated upon the systematics and life
histories of the water mites inhabiting temporary ponds, and thus becomes a
specialized outgrowth of the Curator’s general study on the phylogeny and ecology
of the invertebrates inhabiting these highly specialized aquatic habitats.

Work continues as time is available on the labelling and installation of our
study collection of terrestrial and freshwater Molluscs, returned last year from the
University of Michigan Museum.

The Curator, by invitation, presented a paper on his study of the phylogeny
and life-history of the Trichoptera inhabiting temporary ponds at the annual meeting
of the Entomological Society of America in Portland, Oregon.

At the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario held at the
University of Toronto, all three members of the Department’s scientific staff pre¬
sented papers.

A considerable portion of the Curator’s time was involved with the organization
and writing of a proposal to the National Research Council for a Negotiated Develop¬
ment Grant on behalf of those departments in the Museum working in systematic
and evolutionary biology. The grant, if received, would provide support in the
neighbourhood of $400,000 over a three-year period for the addition of laboratories,
data processing facilities, and other assets to the Museum’s present programme in
systematic biology, and would represent a major advance in several respects for the
R.O.M. in this field of study.

All plans for initiation of a gallery of living invertebrates have been suspended
because of the disclosure that the Director plans a new wing and a major reorganiza¬
tion of the space allotted to Museum departments.

Our departmental artist, Mr. Ankar Odum, has been involved full-time with the
preparation of illustrations of invertebrates for various publications. Studies on
various groups of Trichoptera by the Curator and Curatorial Assistant mentioned
previously have occupied the major part of his time, but he has also collected several
more of the highly detailed half-tone plates for the book planned by the Curator on
invertebrates occurring in buildings, and he has recently commenced a set of illustra¬
tions for Father Riotte’s study of the moth genus Lapara.

Our departmental secretary, Mrs. Isabel J. Smythe, resigned at the end of

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February to await the birth of a son. Mrs. Smythe has entered enthusiastically into
the life of the Department during her two years here and her work has been very
much appreciated.

One of our volunteer assistants, Mrs. Helen Sutton, a highly skilled photo¬
grapher of biological subjects, has proved especially valuable. Mrs. Sutton has under¬
taken to build up the 35 mm. slide library of the Department with slides taken from
living insects and other invertebrates. This year Mrs. Sutton won the nature photo¬
graphy section of the Toronto Camera Club with the highest total number of points
gained over the year’s competitions, and also won the McGregor trophy for the
outstanding natural history slide of the year.

The staff collected several thousand specimens of Trichoptera, with incidental
collections of Plecoptera and other groups of aquatic invertebrates; 1,700 specimens
of Lepidoptera and other insects; and several thousand Hydracarina and other
aquatic invertebrates. By gift it received a further 200 insects, mainly Lepidoptera,
and by purchase throughout the world nearly 3,000 more.

Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology

Dr. W. B. Scott, Curator of Ichthyology and Head of the Department, is satis¬
fied that the Department has had a most successful year both in publication and in
enrichment of the collection. Some 29,330 specimens were catalogued, which is
twice as many as in any previous good year. Also, the many modifications in the
offices and laboratories have enabled the staff to operate more efficiently.

It should be emphasized that this current level of operation would have been
impossible without the funds made available from the Fisheries Research Board of
Canada contracts. The increase in cataloguing was made possible only by paying
overtime and hiring additional help. At the present time, when all part-time and
full-time helpers are present, eleven people are working in the Department.

As the termination date of the freshwater fishes project approaches (1969), the
tempo of activity in the Department will quicken and next year the Department
anticipates an even busier period.

The Curator, Dr. W. B. Scott, continued his study of lanternfishes (family
Myctophidae ) under a contract agreement with the Fisheries Research Board. This
now continues principally under Mrs. Radforth, our research associate. Many
fruitful opportunities for original work have opened up, and the reference collection
has been greatly enriched. Some of this material is now being used by a graduate
student proceeding to an M.A. under the supervision of the Curator. His research
on the cottid genus Triglops in the North Atlantic Ocean is complete except for the
final report, and his study of the food of the swordfish, Xiphias gladius, in the
Northwest Atlantic Ocean has been carried to its final stages. His Fishes of the
Atlantic Coast of Canada was finally released by the Queen’s Printer in December,
1966, and, with encouragement from the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, a
short-term study of the pleural and epipleural ribs of two gadid fishes was under¬
taken and a report prepared.

The Associate Curator, Dr. E. H. Crossman, continued his research project on
the fossil history of the esocoid fishes and on his description of the comparative
osteology of members of the suborder Esocoidei. He completed the analysis of
characteristics of salmonid hybrids. Mrs. Isobel Radforth, in addition to continuing
her systematic studies of myctophid fishes, is preparing a report on the fishes she
collected in the Falkland Islands during the winter of 1966-67.

Both curators have devoted increasing amounts of time to the joint project,
“The Freshwater Fishes of Canada,” the goal of which is a comprehensive text to
include all Canadian freshwater fishes.

An annotated checklist constituting the first stage in the manuscript and
embracing the whole of Canada has been completed. It will be widely distributed
throughout Canada and the northern United States.

Field studies on Atlantic pelagic fishes were conducted by the Curator at the
Biological Station, Fisheries Research Board of Canada, St. Andrews, New Brunswick.

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One of the major research projects was a food study of the swordfish.

Several field trips were made by the Associate Curator in the conduct of his
research on esocoid fishes. This work is supported by National Research Council
funds and during this stage involves biochemical analysis of the several species in
the suborder.

The Associate Curator has also organized a field research programme to be
conducted during the current summer west of Lake Superior in Ontario. This work
is partially supported by a grant from the Ouetico Foundation and is being con¬
ducted with the active co-operation of the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests.

The Research Associate, Mrs. Radforth, visited the Falkland Islands and
obtained an excellent representative collection of fishes from this locality in the
southern hemisphere.

In conjunction with the “Freshwater Fishes of Canada” project, Mr. P.
Buerschaper conducted field studies in the Ottawa River and tributaries.

Dr. Crossman lectured twice and Dr. Scott once. Both curators served in the
field of graduate studies. In the area of gallery reconstruction, one habitat group in
the Gallery of Canadian Fishes was closed for renovation while a new exhibit is being
prepared. Considerable reorganization took place within the Department. Other
educational and scientific institutions and fellow scientists were assisted. Loans of
specimens were made to ten universities and specialist organizations.

Exchanges or gifts were arranged with ten organizations and both curators
continued to serve as outside referees for scientific papers and research proposals for
various international societies and organizations.

Many experts from other institutions worked in the Department and demands
for information relating to fishes, amphibians, reptiles, conservation and related
fields continue to increase. This created much extra work but served also to emphasize
one of the important functions of this institution.

A total of 115 accessions were received during the year, varying greatly in size
from one specimen to 1,500 specimens.

The collections increased substantially during the period May 6, 1966, to
May 23, 1967. A total of 29,330 specimens (1,434 lots) were added to the permanent
collections, almost twice the previous peak. The major reason for the increase was
the need to eliminate the backlog of uncatalogued specimens so that they could be
used in “The Freshwater Fishes of Canada.”

The Curators continue to discharge their numerous professional responsibilities,
Dr. W. B. Scott as committee member, director or member of executive of nine
professional societies and organizations.

The Curators were jointly awarded a Fisheries Research Board contract in the
amount of $55,000, terminating in 1969. Dr. Scott was awarded a $23,000 contract
which terminates in 1971. Dr. Crossman was awarded a grant of $500 by the
Quetico Foundation to conduct field studies in the Lake Superior region of Ontario.

Members of the Department published six scholarly papers and a number for
more popular consumption.

Department of Invertebrate Palaeontology

Dr. R. R. H. Lemon, Associate Curator-in-charge, reports that the major
research project in the Department continues to be concerned with marine molluscs
of the Late Tertiary and Pleistocene Age from both the Atlantic and Pacific sides
of the Panamanian Isthmus. The demands made by the final stages in the prepara¬
tion of the new Hall of Fossil Invertebrates, which opened on January 24, 1967,
meant that virtually no research was possible during the first half of the year but
since February work has recommenced and two papers have been completed, one
dealing with the geology of the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador, and the other
concerned with ash bands within the succession, the latter requiring updating in the
light of new data. Work on the plates to illustrate a paper describing the Pleistocene
gastropods of the Santa Elena region has continued.

Field work and collecting was concentrated for a six-week period in northern

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Colombia and covered the coastal region from Cartagena, including the offshore
island of Tierra Bomba, to Riohacha on the Peninsula de Guajira. In the area
between Santa Marta and Cartagena two previously undescribed erosion surfaces
and associated deposits wei’e examined and from these a molluscan fauna was
collected. A preliminary examination suggests a possible Pliocene Age for the upper
of the two surfaces. All but the lowest and youngest marine terraces are for the most
part now represented only by erosional remnants and, since there has been differential
warping of the coastal region, correlation from one area to another will only be
possible after further detailed study.

Work in the Riohacha area proved the existence of a Pleistocene surface which
probably can be correlated with the lowest of a series of surfaces previously mapped
in the Peninsula de Paraguana, Venezuela, to the east, but more work is required in
this region which is rather difficult of access.

For the first time extensive coral reefs have been found at these higher levels
along the Caribbean coast of Colombia and, since they are entirely absent in the
Recent, the indications are that fundamental alterations in oceanic circulation,
probably reflecting changes in the Panamanian land barrier, have occurred in this
region since Pleistocene time.

It is gratifying to record that the Operating Grant given by the National
Research Council was again renewed for 1967-68.

As in previous years, the Associate Curator delivered four lectures as part of
University Extension Evening Lectures in the Museum. The course this year was
entitled “Geology in the Museum” and, unlike previous years, the lectures were
given in the galleries concerned. These proved most popular.

The Associate Curator was responsible for the University course in Pleistocene
Geology (Geology 429) in the Department of Geology, and for Geology 101 in the
Department of Extension, Scarborough College.

It was most gratifying that beginning in September, with a positive and properly
balanced programme and particular stimulus from the Director, work on all aspects
of the new Hall of Fossil Invertebrates went ahead with marked vigour. The deadline
for the official opening of the gallery had been set at January 23, and this was
successfully met.

Throughout the planning and construction of the gallery very close co-operation
was maintained between the Associate Curator and Mr. Harley Parker and his design
staff. Without this team-work from all concerned, the completion of the gallery
would have been impossible. The same cordial relations existed with Mr. Sinclair
and the carpenters, with Mr. Lindsay and the preparators, and with Mr. Warren,
to all of whom must go their fair proportion of credit for the success of the new Hall
of Fossil Invertebrates.

Lieutenant General Guy Simmons graciously accepted the Director’s invitation
to officiate at the opening of the Hall of Fossil Invertebrates, which proved to be a
notable occasion.

Since the opening much experience has been gained in the working of the
electronic equipment which plays such a large role in the gallery, and many of the

Easter Week crowds enjoy the
new Hall of Fossil
Invertebrates.

early teething troubles have now been eliminated. The four aquaria in the gallery
require the most maintenance. While the freshwater tanks give little trouble, the
two sea-water tanks need constant supervision if the correct temperature and salinity
are to be maintained. Feeding of the various creatures, the removal of uneaten food,
and the cleaning of algae from the tank walls and bottom sediment are all time-
consuming and tedious tasks, and without the interest and hard work of Mrs.
Thompson, the maintenance of these extremely popular exhibits would have been
impossible. In addition to her secretarial duties and her work in preparing the
illustrations for the new guidebook, painting new signs for the rotunda and other
tasks, Mrs. Thompson has given unsparingly of her time and energy in maintaining
the aquaria and in seeing to it that all the electronic equipment has been in working
order at all times.

The aquaria form part of a trend within the Museum as a whole towards the
increase of living exhibits, a trend which would merit the appointment of a full-time
preparator or technician whose duties would be concerned solely with living animals.

The Associate Curator resigned in June in order to take up a position in
exploration geology in South America, and Mrs. K. Thompson, Junior Technician,
resigned her position at the end of June.

Department of Mammalogy

Dr. R. L. Peterson, Curator, reports an accelerated pace in the research activities
of the Department. The bat research programme resulted in the acquisition of 3,368
specimens, compared with 2.224 in 1965-66. The countries and number of bats
obtained from each were as follows:

Bechuanaland, 31; British Honduras, 31; Cameroons, 249; Canada, 373; Colombia,
81; Cuba, 90; England, 13; Ghana, 92; Guyana, 769; Ireland, 23; Kenya, 484;
Malaysia, 455; Mexico, 3; Philippines, 342; Puerto Rico, 1; Singapore, 12; Suri¬
nam, 34; Tanzania, 7; Uganda, 241; U.S.A., 21; Vietnam, 16.

Even more impressive than the quantity of specimens has been the quality.
Many very rare and hitherto little-known species continue to enter the collection.
Bat specimens for the year included 14 families, 95 genera, and 182 species. In
addition, a programme of bat research in Madagascar was initiated with preparatory
research carried out by the Curator at the U.S. National Museum, Washington,
D.C., The American Museum of Natural History, New York, The Museum of
Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, as well as The British Museum of
Natural History. A highly successful expedition to East Africa and Madagascar
was carried out in April and May, thanks to the very generous sponsorship of
Mrs. Noreen Curry of Winnipeg and the Royal Ontario Museum, with timely
and welcome additional support from the President’s Fund. The results of this
notable expedition are not yet fully evaluated and will be included in the next
Annual Report.

A study of bat biology in southeastern Ontario was pursued by Mr. Brock
Fenton. A part of the study concerned growth, parturition and milk dentition in the
little brown bat, and this work was submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of
Master of Science at the University of Toronto. Additional work concerns the
ecology of bats in this area, and includes weight studies, microclimate of roosts (both
winter and summer) , migration of bats and swarming of bats around hibernacula
in the summer. Part of this study includes an extensive banding programme, and to
date over 16,000 bats have been banded, making it one of the most active bat¬
banding operations in North America. This research was supported by a grant to
the Curator from the National Research Council of Canada. Efforts have been made
to publicize this bat research programme to increase the return of bands by the
general public. The publicity work has included to date a display at the Canadian
National Sportsmen’s Show, and a display in the main rotunda of the Royal
Ontario Museum.

Mr. Stan van Zyll de Jong began a taxonomic study of the genus Lutra and
has made considerable progress in his analysis of cranial and other characteristics

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of the otter of both North and South America. Support for this research was provided
by the Canadian National Sportsmen’s Show.

The publication of The Mammals of Eastern Canada in October, 1966, by
Oxford University Press was a significant event for the Curator and the Department.
In June, 1966, the Curator was elected president of the American Society of
Mammalogists at its annual meeting at Long Beach State University, California,
making him the first non-American to hold that post. He also served as a member
of the Council of the Society of Systematic Zoology and attended its annual meet¬
ing at Washington, D.C. He was also elected member of the Executive Council,
Academy of Zoology, Agra, India.

The Curator conducted the graduate course in Mammalogy for the Department
of Zoology, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, Services for other
institutions and individuals continues at a satisfactory level, which included lectures,
appearances on television and radio, editorial assistance, manuscript appraisal and a
wide range of identification services, as well as loans of specimens to research workers
in other institutions.

A total of 3,568 mammal specimens were added to the collection during the
year, 3,023 by purchase, 57 by donation, and 488 collected by staff.

Department of Ornithology

Dr. Jon C. Barlow, Curator, reports that he and his staff examined critically a
collection of approximately 450 birds obtained in British Honduras, including several
that constitute first records of occurrence for that country. They also studied several
aberrantly plumaged warblers that have been collected recently in Ontario. The
Curator continued his study of the European tree sparrow, and the Department
prepared and examined critically throughout the course of the year over 100
specimens of red-eyed and Philadelphia vireos obtained as part of a study of the
biosystematics of the Asian family Vireonidae. Manuscripts are in course of prepara¬
tion on these projects.

The Department’s able research associates continued their work on the systema-
tics of the amethyst starling ( Cinnyricinclus leucogaster) , the occurrence of the
black-legged kittiwake ( Rissa tridactyla ) in Ontario, our African material, the
identification of skeletal remains of vertebrates (including many birds) from pre¬
historic and historic Indian middens in southern Ontario and the Saginaw Bay
region of neighbouring Michigan.

A number of enthusiastic volunteers have throughout the year contributed to
departmental projects such as the Ontario Nest Records Scheme, the records of
which are maintained in the Bird Room, updating the card file, circularizing the
public for support and preparing a detailed report concerning data from the previous
breeding season.

In the field, 86 specimens of birds including several important records were
obtained, the ecology and behaviour of red-eyed, warbling and yellow-throated vireos
were studied in the vicinity of Toronto.

Work on European tree sparrows and their ecology in Illinois formed part of
a five-year project supported by grants from the Chapman Memorial Fund of the
American Museum of Natural History and the Canadian National Sportsmen’s Show.

The Curator again investigated the ecology and taped the vocalizations of the
European tree sparrow in Illinois.

The Department studied the behaviour and ecology of the gray vireo ( Vireo
vicinior ) and collected scientific specimens in the Trans- Pecos of west Texas and in
the Organ Mountains of southern New Mexico. This work is supported by an
operating grant from the National Research Council of Canada. The Curator took
movies of the nest-building and courtship activities of the gray vireo and obtained
high fidelity tape-recordings of the associated vocalizations in the Chisos Mountains
in Big Bend National Park. Virtually all the observations of the activities of this
species contributed new information. During this work in Big Bend, the Curator held
a collaboratorship in the Park and the research was officially designated as part of

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the U.S. National Park Service Research Programme for 1966-67. One hundred and
forty-two bird specimens, over 400 insects and other invertebrates, 13 mammals and
4 snakes and lizards were taken in the Trans-Pecos for the Museum’s collections. The
National Research Council approved a major equipment grant for the purchase of
a large spectrophotometer for analysis of colour differences in plumage of vireos
collected on this and other field trips.

The Department’s staff studied the Philadelphia and red-eyed vireos in north¬
east Ontario and collected samples of each at four localities between Winnipeg and
Fort St. John, B.C.

Specimens on loan from this Department were displayed in several local schools,
stores and museums.

Dr. Barlow presented a paper entitled “Morphostasis in the North American
Population of the European Tree Sparrow” at the International Ornithological
Congress at Oxford, England, in July of 1966. He also was interviewed on radio and
gave several lectures to local naturalist groups. At the annual meeting of the
American Ornithologists’ Union in early September, Mr. Baillie presented a paper
entitled “Ontario’s Newest Birds,” and he also spoke before the Province of Quebec
Society for the Protection of Birds (in Montreal), and to several nature clubs
in Ontario.

Dr. Barlow, in his capacity as Assistant Professor of Zoology, supervised the
research of two graduate students, taught a graduate course in Ornithology, and
served on the Graduate Student Committee of the Department of Zoology of the
University of Toronto. For the tenth year, Mr. Baillie presented a series of eight
lectures (plus two field trips and two visits to the R.O.M. Bird Room) on the study
of birds in the Natural Science Course of the Evening Tutorial Classes, University of
Toronto Extension Courses.

As in previous years, rearrangement of the bird collection continued and 14
cabinets were finished, raising the total to 1 18 cabinets completed since the rearrange¬
ment was undertaken. Approximately 2,780 specimens were collected by, donated to,
or purchased by the Department during the year. Two thousand nine hundred and
thirty-four skins were labelled and catalogued during this period.

The single most important accession was a bequest of 571 sets of eggs from the
estate of the late Cyril Peake of Toronto. Once again the public used the varied
facilities of the Department and researchers in other museums, universities and
government agencies and visiting classes from the University of Guelph, the Ontario
College of Optometry and the Conservation Officer Training Group of the Ontario
Department of Lands and Forests called upon its services.

The collections of specimens preserved in spirits and as skeletons continued to
grow — approximately five hundred additional items being added to each.

Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology

Dr. A. G. Edmund reports that the Department continued its field work in
Montana, Saskatchewan and elsewhere. The specimens collected, mainly mammals,
range from Cretaceous to Miocene in age, and help to fill gaps in our research
collections. Of special note is the large quantity and variety of Lance Age (Upper
Cretaceous) mammals and other fossils from the Bug Creek locality of Montana.
Over 2,000 teeth representing several orders of mammals have been prepared
for study.

A change in editorial policy caused the manuscript for the section on “Dentition”
for the Biology of the Reptiles (Academic Press, London), to be greatly enlarged
and new illustrations made.

1 he modern osteological collection has been greatly expanded through collection,
purchase and exchange and is proving valuable for research, teaching and for the
identification of bones collected by laymen and archaeologists.

Aside from the materials obtained by the Museum’s field parties, significant
smaller collections were added from a variety of sources. A total of 434 specimens
or lots of specimens was catalogued.

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Dr. C. S. Churcher, research associate, continued work on the revision of his
manuscript on the sabre-tooth cats. It is now essentially complete and photos and
drawings are being prepared. Working with the Geological Survey of Canada, he
continued his research on pre and early Wisconsin faunas of Alberta and Saskat¬
chewan. Of special note was the discovery of artifacts indicating the presence of
man near Medicine Hat approximately 30,000 years ago.

Members of the staff attended the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate
Palaeontology in Berkeley, California. Field trips and ensuing discussions have
already resulted in exchanges of specimens and plans for future field work.

The greatest advance in exhibition facilities resulted from the hiring of a
technician whose training and experience in design and display quickly demonstrated
their value. Preliminary plans for the complete rebuilding of the exhibits in this
Department have been drawn up and schemes developed for potentially interesting,
yet at the present neglected, areas, such as the second floor rotunda.

Several specimens of low exhibition value were removed from the galleries,
resulting in better traffic flow and in better visibility of the remaining exhibits.
Possibly the most obvious change resulted from the removal of the glass cases from
two dinosaur skeletons. Combined with neat railings and improved lighting, these
suddenly become exciting and dramatic. Since the cost of this was negligible, we
plan also to expose the remaining panel-mounted hadrosaurs.

Mr. Gyrmov spent two weeks in the Texas Memorial Museum in Austin, where
he produced latex moulds of the striking skeleton of Typothorax , a spike-armoured
Triassic reptile. The cast of this unique specimen, about ten feet long, has now been
mounted, providing the third representative from this early age of reptiles to be
installed in as many years. During his stay in Texas Mr. Gyrmov made casts of a
large number of bones and teeth for our research collections.

This activity forms part of a continuing programme by which we can secure
duplicates of the finest available specimens at little cost and reap the benefit of
generations of expeditions to all parts of the continent and beyond. For research
purposes, these materials are equal to the originals, and enable us to build up a
reference collection which we could never hope to obtain by countless field trips.
Furthermore, by trading our casts to other museums it is often possible further to
diversify our collections. The use of high-fidelity casts in teaching also eliminates the
danger to delicate and irreplaceable originals.

In an exchange with the University of Texas, the Department obtained a good
skeleton of the rare reptile Trilophosaurus and a skull of a crocodile-like phytosaur.

An experiment of a year ago in which a live iguana was put on display proved
so popular that recently three old exhibition cases were converted into terraria.
These display monitor lizards, tegus, turtles and other hardy reptiles. Showing these
in the same gallery as the skeletons of their giant fossil relatives adds to the under¬
standing of the remainder of the displays, and the lizard cases always receive
enthusiastic attention.

Thanks to an arrangement with the Department of Geology, the Department
was able to install a series of 44 cabinets made by the museum carpenters. Now, for
the first time, all of the systematic fossil mammal collection can be stored in one
place. Space was also provided for the growing collection of modern skulls and
skeletons. As a result, comparison of recent and fossil forms can be made in the
same rooms.

A two-stage vacuum pump now permits us to make high-density bubble-free
plaster and plastic casts. The same equipment is also used to impregnate fossils and
plaster casts with plastic solutions, greatly improving their strength and surface
appearance. The preparation laboratory has received a major portion of the equip¬
ment budget for several years, but is still in need of much additional equipment
before it can be considered adequate for the tasks imposed on it by the research and
field work of three scientists and also the rejuvenated exhibition programme.

Plans are being drawn up for a new section of Mezzanine floor which could add
almost 700 square feet of office and laboratory space.

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New recruits to the staff have greatly increased the efficiency of the Department,
and the assistance of several volunteers resulted in the re-housing and cataloguing of
the scelidothere fossils (about sixty drawers), as well as the rearranging of much of
the file of photographs of fossil edentates.

The Department wishes to express its appreciation to all of these, who have
given so generously and enthusiastically of their time and talent.

Department of Display ( Biology )

Mr. T. M. Shortt reports that the major project of this Department has been
for the past three years the continuation of work on a series of large dioramas. These
are designed to recreate in natural settings the fauna and flora of selected zoogeo-
graphical regions of the earth. The first of these, a representation of the monsoon
forest of South India, was opened to the public in March, 1965. The second in the
series was completed during the period covered by this report. This exhibit recreated
a scene of the vegetation and wildlife of the Galapagos Islands. To collect the plants
and animals for these and to obtain field sketches and photographs as reference aids
in painting the 400 square foot backgrounds, R.O.M. expeditions travelled to
these localities.

Owing to lack of funds it was not possible to conduct field work to gather
material for the third in the series, but by choosing to construct a winter scene in
the high arctic in winter it was possible to proceed with the programme. Specimens
were already available and previous experience could be called upon. This exhibit
is now nearing completion and will be opened to the public sometime this summer.
It presents a scene on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian arctic archipelago, 600 miles
from the North Pole, during the polar night. Among the animals displayed are the
white Peary’s caribou, arctic fox, arctic hare, rock ptarmigan, ermine, lemming,
raven, snowy owl and white gyrfalcon. Some of these were mounted from fresh
specimens and some remounted from old material.

It is proposed to add other exhibits depicting such subjects as grasslands, desert
and hardwood forest, and such series of supporting exhibits dealing with the natural
phenomena of astronomical zonation, prevailing winds, ocean currents, topography,
etc., which produce our climates and shape the land, its vegetation and animal life.

Several special temporary exhibits were prepared during the year.

The Departmental Chief addressed the biological classes of Guelph University
and the Kiwanis Club of Oshawa, and a number of groups within the Museum.

Display General

During the year the Display Department took a major part in the production
of three exhibitions: the Cypriote Antiquities, the Modesty to Mod Costumes and
the major undertaking of the design of the new ethnology galleries. It also worked
on a number of others. It has helped curatorial departments and public information.

An allocation of money made it possible for members of the Department to
visit Expo and examine new display techniques, many of which are far in advance
of our own.

The Department does not yet function in a manner fitting a large and active
museum, and much thought must be given to its staff, organization, responsibilities
and authority. However, Mr. Parker states that “the year has passed in a reasonably
intelligent fashion.”

Education Department

The responsibilities of and demands on the Education Department are extremely
heavy and continue to mount. The attraction of the Royal Ontario Museum lies in
the multiplicity and variety of its departments. The science departments, with their
objective and rational approach, draw those who are interested in investigating the
physical world. 1 he art and archaeological departments involve their visitors in a
more personal and subjective way by appealing to their senses and sensibilities.

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The Department utilizes the assets of all other departments in its teaching of
elementary and secondary school classes. Ninety per cent of the requests for lessons
are closely related to the curricula of schools. It is worth noting that 40 per cent of
the classes and 45 per cent of the pupils are from Grades 6 to 11. There is a notice¬
able increase in the number of secondary school classes visiting the Museum. The
Royal Ontario Museum is unique in this area of museum education, and the Province
is fortunate to have such an institution.

With respect to elementary schools, owing to pressure of numbers, a policy
whereby only Grades 5 and up are taught has had to be inaugurated. These pupils,
it is felt, gain more from a museum visit than do those from primary classes. However,
the latter are encouraged to visit under the supervision of their own teachers.

Learning through discussion and observation of museum artifacts is not the
prerogative of those who can come to the Museum. During January and February
two teaching teams, with material suitable for elementary schools, travelled in
Renfrew County and Thunder Bay District. A total of 9,987 pupils, in the course
of 196 lessons, studied specific objects and learned about the Museum generally.
It is most rewarding to experience the appreciation of the areas to which the
Department travels.

The fifteen travelling cases illustrating particular topics continue to be used for
classroom study or general display purposes in schools beyond a radius of 150 miles
of Toronto. According to evaluation sheets returned by classroom teachers, many
exciting projects have been developed after contacts with one or both of the above
services. Museum material is being used most profitably in schools which are employ¬
ing the team-teaching method.

On the suggestion of the Director, much time has been spent planning for an
expansion of school services in 1967-68. The various school boards have generously
guaranteed more finance to enable the Department to hire more teachers and have
started a system of each year seconding two teachers from schools to work in the
Museum. The Department looks forward to special monthly programmes for both
elementary and secondary schools.

Contacts with hospitals have expanded. The recreational programme, shared
with the Members’ Committee, at the Crippled Children’s Hospital continued. The
Ontario Hospital for the mentally ill has had speakers on an occasional basis, and
the school at the Sick Children’s Hospital was visited on a monthly basis.

Two post-secondary school groups again requested the assistance of the Educa¬
tion Department. The history specialists from The College of Education were
introduced to Museum collections and Museum teaching methods. The fourth year
Physical and Health Education students were given two series of six lectures,
emphasizing the place of athletics in other civilizations.

It would be impractical to list all the occasional groups using services of the
Department, sometimes for a specific programme, sometimes to assist the energetic
Members’ Committee with groups — one as large as seven hundred!

The Saturday Morning Club, under the able supervision of Miss E. Berlin,
continues to be popular. It is rewarding to hear from parents of the children’s
increased interest and their new freedom of expression.

The general public was invited to attend well-chosen documentary films on ten
Sunday afternoons during the winter and twice a week during the summer. The
summer programme was followed by gallery tours related to the films. A total of
6,069 people attended.

The evening extension courses, given in collaboration with the University
Extension Department, again offered diversified series. “Digging into the Past” and
“Geology in the Museum” were given before Christmas. The latter series was given
in the galleries, where ideally all Museum courses should be held. This was also
repeated after the New Year. Registration was restricted to the capacity of the
gallery. “The Arts as Communication” and “In Search of the Maritimes” were
continuations of series started in previous years. The thirty eminent speakers, from
home and afar, made all courses stimulating and in some cases provocative.

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This is the twenty-first year of evening extension courses and the attendance
reached a record high of 3,450 people, well over 1,000 higher than the average
attendance of the last ten years. Miss E. N. Martin, responsible for arranging the
courses, is to be warmly congratulated on their continuing success.

“The Arts as Communication” series was particularly popular with a total of
1,207. This figure is partly due to the record 460 persons who welcomed the
opportunity to hear Professor Marshall McLuhan speak on February 9. This total
record, moreover, was achieved in spite of the fact that the series “Geology in the
Museum,” so popular that it had to be repeated after Christmas, was given in the
galleries and consequently registration was limited to forty. The two other courses
were “Digging into the Past” with total attendance of 957, and “In Search of the
Maritimes,” 692.

Such higher numbers could not have been achieved without a greater measure
of publicity, and the Department received the most effective assistance in the matter
of publicity from the Museum’s Department of Information Services.

A reputation for the high calibre of museum courses has been gradually
established over the past few years. This is not only due to the excellent co-operation
of members of the Museum staff, but also to the fact that the Museum is in a
position to develop what is an important office of this institution: to bring together
speakers of distinction in many disciplines.

Over the last few years, too, there has been not only an increasing interest in
adult education, but also a healthy adult awareness of what education might well be
about. “I take the non-credit extension courses for pure enjoyment, but unlike most
entertainment, I actually learn something worthwhile — learning is now a pleasure
instead of a form of torture culminating in an examination.” “I take it the R.O.M.
lectures are ‘fringe benefits’ in the Extension Division programme courses. They are
excellent fringes and their provision shows a recognition of the fact that many people
have solid curiosities which they will go to some trouble to satisfy.” (Statements made
in answer to a questionnaire issued by the University of Toronto Extension Division
in the fall term, 1966.)

That “solid curiosity” is a factor was demonstrated in the necessity to close
registration in the archaeology series, “Digging into the Past,” a series that will be
repeated with some variation this coming fall. That interest in the subject and the
Museum’s unique contribution to learning should override the matter of cost was
demonstrated by offering “Geology in the Museum” in the galleries of the Museum.
If the Museum were open one evening a week, we should be able to offer more of
such unique museum courses. Lastly, in an attempt to assess what makes museum
courses attractive, it appears that the Museum is in tune with new thinking about
education and that this is recognized. In such courses as those on the arts and society
given the last four years, we are, as a student writes, providing “a type of course that
is less remarkable for the learning of a particular subject but rather sets the mood for
learning, establishes relationships between the different fields of learning, may give
a serious student a glimpse at the unity of all things and states, and last but not
least, provides the exuberance which comes from partaking in spirited exchanges and
expressions.” Not only are people asking questions more freely at the end of a lecture
and asking extremely knowledgable and “sharp” questions, but many are demanding
more and more discussion and less lecturing. As leisure becomes more widespread
there are potent signs in every aspect of museum life that the services the Museum
offers will be increasingly used.

In closing, may we take this opportunity to thank all the curatorial staff of the
Museum. Without their co-operation, knowledge and materials, the Education
Department could not function. I wish to thank personally the teachers on the
permanent staff, Miss A. Chrysler, Miss M. Cumming, Miss M. Fitz-Gibbon, Mrs.
P. Isetta and Miss E. N. Martin for their contribution and loyalty to the programme;
Miss E. Berlin, Supervisor of the Saturday Morning Club, for her imaginative
administration, the supporting office staff and the occasional teaching staff for their
capable assistance.

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Information Services

This key service is very much overworked and understaffed. The demands made
on it are very heavy and the pressures are great. Mr. Bruce Easson, recently appointed
Information Officer, reports that it has performed splendidly during the year, an
opinion with which the Director concurs.

Publicity programmes operated on two levels during the year. On one level were
comprehensive campaigns for major events, such as the opening of the Hall of Fossil
Invertebrates and the Modesty to Mod centennial exhibition of costumes. On another
level was the sustained programme of public information about the Museum, its
problems and the continuing activities of both the institution and its staff.

These two aspects of publicity resulted in the appearance in Canadian daily
newspapers, weekly newspapers, weekend supplements and magazines a total of
more than five hundred articles on more than twenty topics. Many of the stories were
distributed by the Canadian Press national news service. More than fifty television
and radio broadcasts featured information about the Museum or interviews with
its staff.

Although the Hall of Fossil Invertebrates and Modesty to Mod were widely
covered by the communications media, other exhibitions also were brought to public
attention by newspapers, radio and television. These included the Loch Collection of
Cypriote Antiquities, Photography in the Fine Arts IV and, at the Canadiana Build¬
ing, An Old Canadian Winter, Sculptures Anciennes du Canada Franqais and
Discovery and Mapping of Upper Canada.

Promotion for many of these special features included direct mailings, posters
and paid advertising.

During the year promotional material and assistance were provided for the
Ten-to-One Weekly Tours, the R.O.M.’s special free lectures successfully organized
by the Members’ Committee, the evening extension course lectures in the Museum,
free Sunday films, and other activities.

The Department underwrote the cost and assisted with the preparation of a bat
research exhibit organized by Mr. Brock Fenton of the Mammalogy Department at
the Canadian National Sportsmen’s Show.

The publications activities of the Department were equally varied. Catalogues
for the Loch Collection of Cypriote Antiquities, Modesty to Mod and Discovery and
Mapping of Upper Canada were supervised through production at the University
of Toronto Press. For the Modesty to Mod catalogue a direct mail campaign resulted
in almost 400 pre-publication orders from individuals and public libraries across
Canada. Meeting Place was issued three times as a separate section in the Varsity
Graduate. Editorial and production advice was provided for such scholarly works
as The Crayfishes of Ontario, A Handbook of the Far Eastern Collection, and The
Archaeology of the Serpent Mounds Site (all scheduled to be published next year).
A quarterly Museum bulletin called Rotunda is now in an advanced planning stage.

An agreement was reached with an outside distributor of educational material
to take ten titles totalling 20,000 copies in the popular Who, What, When, Where,
How, Why series of booklets.

The Department activities were complicated by a period of reorientation. Mr.
Bruce Easson joined the Department in mid-September as Information Officer,
succeeding Mr. Ian Montagnes who, in his three years as head of the Department,
developed a successful publications progamme and was responsible for many of its
basic publicity and public relations procedures. Mrs. Christa Singer, a valued con¬
sultant and assistant on special projects, regretfully decided she must concentrate on
her outside television and radio commitments. Miss Beverley Slopen joined the
Department in mid-November as Information Assistant.

The thanks of the Department also must be extended to all other departments,
particularly Photography, Display General, and the Preparators. Without the co¬
operation and assistance of all staff members, Information Services would be unable
to carry out its functions.

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Library

Miss E. Feely, the Museum’s young and able Librarian, reports that library
statistics for 1966-67 illustrate an increase in library activity over the preceding year.
Library staff undertook 1,990 reference searches for Museum staff, who also bor¬
rowed 4,894 titles for use outside the Library. Broadening of library policy governing
curatorial use of specialized titles has resulted in the location of over 1,200 titles in
Museum departments as core reference collections. To further Museum research
programmes, 825 titles were borrowed for staff use (692 volumes from the University
of Toronto Library).

Students and Museum visitors made increasing use of Library resources: 1,519
requests for reference assistance were successfully handled. In addition, other libraries
borrowed 201 titles from the collection.

Cataloguing remained an important operation; by May 31, 973 titles were
added, and 163 titles from the older collections were recatalogued. As a result of
cataloguing, 14,500 cards were added to Library records (filling the present cata¬
logue to capacity and making replacement of the catalogue an urgent necessity).

An institutional exchange programme continued to bring many gifts of books
and journals to the Library; eight Museum publications were mailed to partici¬
pating institutions throughout the world.

The professional staff has been active in professional work during the year. In
June, 1966, Miss Feely represented the Museum at the Calgary conference of the
Canadian Library Association, and, in 1967, was appointed to the Membership
Committee of the Institute of Professional Librarians of Ontario. She attended two
graduate courses (Bibliography and Reference Collections; Canadiana Research
Collections) at the School of Library Science, University of Toronto.

During the year, the Library Committee was reconvened, under the chairman¬
ship of the Director, and was expanded to include four representatives of the
curatorial staff (in addition to the Secretary-Treasurer and Head Librarian). The
Committee resumed its former role as an advisory body for Museum Library policies.

During the joint meeting of the American Museum Association and the Cana¬
dian Museum Association, the Library staff were pressed into service to prepare an
exhibition of publications by R.O.M. staff. It was a stimulating and most illumi¬
nating experience to be able to see the prodigious output of the curatorial staff over
the years.

As in 1965-66, the year saw greater recognition and use of the Library’s
resources by staff and public. Although welcome, the demands occupied the Library’s
staff and facilities to such an extent that little opportunity remained to intro¬
duce new services or to expand present services. The Departmental statistics most
strongly underline the need for additional staff, new equipment, a larger library
area, and increased financial support if the Museum’s Library is to meet its obliga¬
tions. These include construction of a working research literature collection, satisfac¬
tion of curatorial library needs, participation in Museum programmes of research
and education and active reference assistance to Museum visitors. With its present
resources, the Library barely meets current demands, and cannot provide the first-
rate library services expected not only by the curators, but also by the growing
numbers of visitors and students at all levels, layman through specialist, who turn
to the Museum Library for information.

The Museum is justifiably proud of its Library services. They bring a consider¬
able measure of goodwill to the Museum and contribute in no small measure to the
academic resources of the University. However, without considerably more support
than at present they will inevitably fall behind in the vital struggle to provide the
basic reference and research tools for the whole organization.

Photography Department

Mr. L. Warren and his staff, cramped for space and inadequately financed, met
the increasing demands made on them with unfailing good humour and unflagging
energy. They produced by the end of April this year a truly staggering output of

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17,521 prints; 8,093 negatives; 5,262 slides and 387 large colour transparencies with¬
out any loss of the quality for which they are greatly respected by all departments.
This more than doubles last year’s production — a remarkable achievement.

In many museums the photographic services are a weak link. That this is not so
in the R.O.M. is due entirely to their dedication, enthusiasm and artistic sensibility.

Programme Secretary

This has been an exceptionally busy year for Mrs. Helen Downie and her small,
hard-working staff. Part of their duties lies in the field of membership, and the year
has seen an appreciable increase from 1,050 to over 1,500 members of the Museum.
This increase, thoroughly desirable as it is, also brings problems. These will increase as
membership grows and will require rethinking of the arrangements for those
occasions, such as openings, which are designed particularly for members.

Exhibitions continued at a high rate and included: Six Danish Graphic Artists
and Posters from Denmark’, La Belle Province’, Photographs by William Notman of
Montreal: Canadian Profile’, Comic Strips from the Museum’s Collection; The Art
Student Uses the Museum; The Loch Collection of Cypriote Antiquities; Ships and
the Sea; Gentle Wilderness: The Sierra Nevada; Saturday Morning Club’s Annual
Christmas Exhibition; An Old Canadian Winter; Photography in the Fine Arts IV;
Sculptures Anciennes du Canada Francais; Hans Christian Andersen; Saturday
Morning Club’s Annual Easter Exhibition; Photographs by Henry Kalen; Discovery
and Mapping of Upper Canada; Modesty to Mod — Dress and Under dress in Canada
1780-1967 ; A Special Exhibition of ROM Publications; Colours mid Patterns in the
Animal Kingdom; The University as Publisher; A Canadian Imprint; and also the
changing stamp exhibitions arranged by our indefatigable Honorary Curator of
Philately.

A total of 21 exhibitions, large and small, successfully staged is a tribute to the
Programme Secretary’s staff and also to the carpenters and preparators, who cheer¬
fully met the many demands made on them. Their duties require the co-ordination
of many services, often with tight schedules which add to the strain. Without willing
help from all concerned this extensive and varied programme could never be
achieved.

Four lectures were given in the Art and Archaeology and three in the Centennial
Science Series. One special lecture on “English Watercolours” was arranged. The
total attendance for them was 1,028. These are all free lectures and it is evident that,
as so often in other spheres, what is offered free receives scant appreciation. Other
arrangements are being made for the fall whereby Members will enjoy free entrance
and the public will be required to pay a small fee. This, it is hoped, may also
stimulate membership.

It is planned in the summer to redecorate the Theatre which is in a shamefully
dilapidated condition. It is extremely difficult to arrange comfortable conditions with
one threatre holding 450 and one lecture room holding 114. Many lectures require
a theatre holding comfortably 200 to 250 people.

Eleven special events were arranged including an Open Night for teachers and
an evening reception for 800 delegates and wives of the first joint meeting of the
American Association of Museums and the Canadian Museums Association — a most
successful evening. A Fashion Show for the House of Molyneux raised $2,670 for the
redecoration of the Armour Court. The Members’ Committee and the Education
Department were as helpful as always in the past, yet another illustration of the help
and co-operation necessary for efficient operation of important services.

As usual the lecture rooms were in great demand for the Walker Mineralogical
Club, the Toronto Field Naturalists’ Club, the Toronto Junior Field Naturalists’
Club, extension courses, Sunday films and the Archaeological Institute of America.

In addition to their heavy normal duties, Mrs. Downie, Secretary-Treasurer of
the Canadian Museums Association, Mr. Brook, and part-time recruits were called
on to carry out much of the organization for the joint American Association of
Museums and the Canadian Museum Association meetings. This was an extremely

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demanding task, especially just before and during the meeting, which they performed
with an enthusiasm and efficiency which earned the praise of all. To them is due
much of the success of the meeting, while to the Director went the commiseration of
the officials for his being from time to time deprived of some of his key staff!

Mrs. Downie reports that she surrendered her position as Secretary-Treasurer of
the Association on June 2, and looks forward to devoting the efforts of her staff to
the improvement and expansion of the Museum’s own programme which already
contributes so much to the cultural life of Toronto.

Registration , Art and Archaeology Departments

Miss Dorothea Hecken reports that the number of acquisitions by the Art and
Archaeology Departments has varied only slightly over the last few years, although
it reached an unprecedented 294 in the calendar year 1966 as compared with 275 in
1965 and 263 in 1964. Acquisitions for the year 1966-67 (to the end of April)
comprised 196 donations, 68 purchases, and 4 bequests.

The donations were mostly in the field of textiles and, with the exception of
about a dozen, the purchases were minor.

The above acquisitions amounted to over a thousand individual items which
were checked, recorded and numbered. Perhaps the most difficult and interesting task
in itemizing and recording was presented by the more than 300 pieces received from
the R.O.M. excavations at Altun Ha, British Honduras.

The revision of the old records has continued with improved speed, thanks to
the many active young technicians and curatorial assistants whom the Art and
Archaeology Departments have added to their staff during the last years. They made
considerable progress in reviewing the collections and sorting the material. As a result
of this, demands for entering objects with old numbers into the new accession system
have flooded in — adding an extra burden to a busy year. Twenty-two thousand
catalogue cards were rolled off our duplicating machine in 1966-67.

The curatorial card records have also made good progress with gaps gradually
being filled. The European Department has added a subject catalogue with proper
references and cross-references to its record files.

The loan activity has been larger than in previous years owing to the many
centennial exhibitions which are taking place all over the country, and to the fact
that so many people look to the R.O.M. as the country’s major repository. To the end
of April, 49 loans were dispatched as compared with 30 loans for 1965-66. Incoming
loans amounted to 41, nearly all of them on a temporary basis for our centennial
textile exhibition.

A considerable number of the outgoing loans were large shipments. The fact
that we were able to send them out promptly and at the same time take care of all
other aspects of the loan procedure, such as lists, shipping and customs papers,
condition reports, loan forms, packing, crating and transportation, was a result of
good teamwork. In this connection, Registration expresses its appreciation of the
work done by Mrs. Elisabeth Phillimore of the Conservation Department and Mr.
Ivan Lindsay, the Chief Preparator. We are also indebted to Mr. Tom Nippak, the
new Customs Clerk at the University of Toronto, whose efficiency in his work and
interest in the Museum have helped us to solve many involved and complicated
customs transactions. The Museum has greatly benefited from his valuable and free
services. The personal contacts he has established at the various points of entry in
and around the City of Toronto have served us very well. Customs brokers tend to
be very expensive, not always knowledgeable in the type of material we import and
export, and ignorant of a museum’s special requirements. It would be sad to think
that, in a separation, we might lose the many benefits of this arrangement with the
University of Toronto.

Experience with shipping problems suggests that it might be well to consider
at some future date a centralization of all shipping and customs responsibilities. It
would greatly facilitate control over all incoming and outgoing material. At present
any department, outside of Art and Archaeology, can make its own shipping arrange -

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ments. This autonomy has led to a certain amount of disorder and confusion, most
of which finds its way back to this Department, as the only shipping department in
the Museum. Such an arrangement could, of course, only be made with completely
different facilities from those we now enjoy. A central shipping door is a vital
necessity

Finally, on a personal note, Miss Hecken comments that, as she goes through old
records which include so much of Dr. Currelly’s correspondence on individual items,
she is constantly impressed by his devotion to the ideal of creating this great museum.
It was a dedication which amounted almost to an obsession and his comments very
often are saddened by his feeling that he was unable to “shake the mountains.”

Sales Desk

Despite the inadequate site and facilities of the Sales Desk, sales have increased
over the year to approximately $55,000 by the end of the year (compared with only
$5,000 twelve years ago). A study was made for expansion but this proved so expen¬
sive that the Director felt it would be wise to wait until the future of the new wing
was settled. Given a good position, sales could with ease rise quickly to about $300,000
per annum, provide a valuable source of income for the Museum and thereby a
support for the publications programme.

The Information Desk handles a great deal of work in its relation to the general
public and on behalf of visitors to the various departments. Mailing has increased
considerably over the year.

The Sales Desk has done its best in what is little more than a hole in the wall,
and new quarters for it are long overdue.

Members ’ Committee

The energetic and enthusiastic ladies, who take such an active interest in the
Museum’s affairs, have worked hard in many areas. They have often accepted with
great willingness the new Director’s suggestions, unfamiliar though they may have
appeared and, even when they did not accept them, they showed a welcome open-
mind. They initiated a series of “Ten-to-One Talks” designed to last half an hour
during lunch hours. These have proved most successful and the curators are thanked
for their academic instruction which enabled the Members to speak with authority.
The Committee has willingly met requests to act as guides for many tours, sold pro¬
grammes, were gracious hostesses on special occasions such as the Open Night for
Teachers, organized a most successful Children’s Party, and helped with flower
arrangements in the rotunda.

In June the Committee devised a most imaginative Centennial Project for
Ontario Children whereby the youngsters contribute toward the purchase at $1,500
of a skeleton of a protoceratops for the Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology. The
Museum erected in the Rotunda a case with a living reptile and a collecting box

Youngsters from Toronto’s Huron Street School brought
along their painting of a dinosaur with their contribution
to the fund to buy a Protoceratops dinosaur for the
R.O.M. At right, a boy feeds a nickel into the mouth of
the model Protoceratops head, in the Main Rotunda.

below which is filling with contributions from one penny to ten dollars given to a
child by his grandmother as a contribution. The interest this has aroused far out¬
weighs the monetary gain — though this too is welcome in an institution as hard-
pressed as the R.O.M. In the first ten days over $160 was contributed.

The Members’ Committee has shown a most welcome flexibility in approaching
the problems and opportunities presented by a rapidly changing society. It has
increased its membership to help, among other things, with a membership drive, and
the Director is grateful for both their devoted work and for the reception they have
given to his ideas. Whether the Committee agreed or not with his aspirations it has
always been a pleasure to discuss them freely with the members.

The role of the Museum is changing and expanding — the demands made on it
are growing. Its opportunities are inexhaustible. As Mrs. Southey, Chairman, states
in her report, “As long as we retain the enthusiasm and originality of thought, and
love of the Museum shown in the past ten years, the next ten will prove just as
rewarding for the Members’ Committee and I hope, through them, the Royal
Ontario Museum.” The Director echoes their hopes and looks forward to the
increased potential provided by the addition of new blood.

It is a genuine pleasure to have the support of a group of such gifted, imaginative
and educated women.

Peter Swann

Museum Attendance, 1966-67

No. of
Visitors

Total

I. Main Building

A. Visitors

500,762

500,762

B. School Classes

1. From Metropolitan Toronto

2. Provincial classes

3. Unconducted classes

37,839

28,171

29,446

95,456

C. Other Groups

1. Ontario College of Art

2. University of Toronto

3. Extension Courses

4. Miscellaneous

20,583

61,410

3,532

18,043

103, 56S

D. Other Uses

Lectures, Openings, etc.

6,353

6,353

E. Rentals

8,931

8,931

Total Main Building

715,070

1 1 . Sigmund Samuel Canadiana Gallery

A. Visitors

B. School Classes

C. Other Groups & Other Uses

IS, 607
7,212
2,211

Total Canadiana Gallery

2S,030

Grand Total

743,100

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Publications

Baillie, J. L. “The 41st Christmas Bird Count, Toronto, 1965” ( Ontario Field Biologist ,
no. 20, Dec., 1966, pp. 4-5).

Barlow, J. C. “Edentates and Pholidotes” ; in Recent Mammals of the World , ed. Sydney
Anderson and J. K. Jones, Jr., pp. 178-91. New York: Ronald Press. 1967.

- - — - “Extralimital Occurrences of the House Sparrow in Northern Ontario” ( Ontario Field

Biologist, no. 20, Dec., 1966, pp. 1-3).

- - - “On the Nesting Trail” (Meeting Place, vol. 1, no. 8, 1966: in Varsity Graduate, vol.

13, no. 1, 1966, pp. 112t14) .

- - - “Rufores Hummingbird in Ontario” ( Canadian Field-Naturalist, vol. 81, no. 2, April—

June, 1967, pp. 148-9).

- — — — - “Status of the Wood Ibis, the Fulvous Tree Duck and the Wheatear in Ontario”
( Canadian Field-Naturalist, vol. 80, no. 40, Oct. -Dec., 1966, pp. 183—6).

- — “Successful Import — the House Sparrow” ( Young Naturalist, vol. 8, no. 10, Dec., 1966,

pp. 1, 5).

Brett, Gerard. “Furniture Designs; the Three Masters” ( Canadian Collector , vol. 2, no. 4,
April, 1967, pp. 14-15).

Brett, K. B. “From Modesty to Mod” ( Canadian Collector, vol. 2, no. 5, May, 1967, pp.
18-20).

- - - Modesty to Mod; Dress and Underdress in Canada, 1780-1967 . Catalogue of 100 Items

in the Exhibition, May 17 to September 4, 1967. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum. 1967.

Buerschaper, P. “Notes on an Oceanographic Research Cruise” ( Ontario Field Biologist,
no. 20, Dec., 1966, pp. 35-9).

Burnham, D. K. Costumes for Canada’s Birthday; the Styles of 1867. Toronto: Royal Ontario
Museum. 1966. Pp. 32.

Burnham, H. B. “In Search of the Maritimes” ( Meeting Place, vol. 1, no. 8, 1966; in
Varsity Graduate, vol. 13, no. 1, 1966, pp. 107-9).

- “Niagara Coverlets” ( Canadian Collector, vol. 1, no. 3, 1966, pp. 10-11).

- - “A Quest for Coverlets” ( Scotland’s Magazine, May, 1967, p. 8).

Crocker, D. W. Handbook of the Crayfishes of Ontario. Life Sciences Miscellaneous Publica¬
tions. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum.

Crossman, E. J. and Buss, Keen. “Artificial Hybrid between Kokanee ( Oncorhynchus
nerka) and Brook Trout ( Salvelinus fontinalis)” ( Copeia , 1966, no. 2, pp. 357-9).

Fenton, M. B. “Myotis sodalis in Caves near Watertown, New York” ( Journal of Mam¬
malogy, vol. 47, no. 3, Aug., 1966, p. 526).

Gardiner, B. G. Catalogue of Canadian Fishes. Life Sciences Contribution no. 68. Toronto:
Royal Ontario Museum. 1966. Pp. 154.

Harris, D. C. “Some Observations on Pharmacolite” ( Canadian Mineralogist, vol. 8, part 4,
1966, pp. 530-1).

Harris, D. C. and Brooker, E. J. “X-ray Spectrographic Analysis of Minute Mineral
Samples” ( Canadian Mineralogist, vol. 8, part 4, 1966, pp. 471-80).

Hickl-Szabo, H. “Arms and Armour” ( Canadian Collector, vol. 2, no. 3, 1967, pp. 24-6).

- “Vienna Porcelain” (ibid., vol. 1, no. 5, Oct., 1966, pp. 7—10) .

Kenyon, W. A. “A Bibliography of Ontario Archaeology” ( Ontario Archaeological Society,
Publication no. 9, June, 1966, pp. 35-62).

- “Some Notes on Fishing” ( Meeting Place, vol. 1, no. 8, 1966; in Varsity Graduate,

vol. 13, no. 1, 1966, pp. 115-16).

Leipen, Neda. The Loch Collection of Cypriote Antiquities: Lionel Massey Memorial Exhibi¬
tion. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum. 1966. Pp. 69.

- “ ‘Small’ Finds from the Athenian Agora — Pottery, Jewellery, Coins, Lamps and other

Modest Objects Provide Details of Everyday Life in Ancient Athens” ( Meeting Place,
vol. 1, no. 10, 1967; in Varsity Graduate, vol. 13, no. 4, 1967, pp. 106—9).

Meen, V. B. “The Royal Ontario Museum Studies the Crown Jewels of Iran” ( Lapidary
Journal, vol. 20, July, 1966, pp. 529—35).

- “Studying Iran’s Crown Jewels” ( Meeting Place, vol. 1, no. 7, 1966; in Varsity

Graduate, vol. 12, no. 4, 1966, pp. 91-6).

- “Synthetic Ruby Beads in Teheran” ( Lapidary Journal, vol. 20, no. 10, 1967, p. 1241).

Needler, Winifred. “Methethy, Gentilhomme de l’Ancien Empire” (Vie des Arts, no. 43,
summer, 1966, pp. 14-19).

- Reviews, Archaeology, vol. 20, no. 1, Jan., 1967, pp. 73-4; no. 2, April, 1967, p. 144;

Bibliotheca Orientalis, vol. 23, no. 1/2, 1966, p. 45.

Organ, R. M. “Reclamation of Silver from the Wholly Mineralized Ur Lyre” (Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Proceedings of the Boston Seminar, 1965).

- “Scientific Report on an Enamelled Brooch” (Transactions of the Lichfield and South

Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society, vol. 5, 1963—64, pp. 46—7).

Pendergast, D. M. “The ROM British Honduras Expedition; Excavation of a Mayan
Civilization at Altun Ha” ( Meeting Place, vol. 1, no. 9, spring, 1967; in Varsity Graduate,
vol. 13, no. 3, May, 1967, pp. 99—112).

Peterson, R. L. The Mammals of Eastern Canada. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1966.
Pp. xxxii, 465.

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- - “Notes on the Yucatan Vesper Rat, Otonyctomys hatti, with a New Record, the First

from British Honduras” ( Canadian Journal of Zoology , vol. 44, 1966, pp. 281—4).

■ - “Recent Mammal Records from the Galapagos Islands” ( Mammalia , tome 30, no. 3,

1966. pp. 441-5).

Riotte, J. C. E. “Ammerkungen zur Nomenklatur einiger Europaeischer und Nordameri-
kanischer Arten der Gattung Orgyia (Lepidoptera, Lymantriidae) ( Deutsche Entomolo-
gische Zeitschrift, n.f. 14, no. 1/2, 1967, pp. 163-8).

- - “Notes on Uncommon Moths in Central and Southern Ontario” ( Journal of the

Lepidopterists’ Society, vol. 21, no. 1, 1967, pp. 33—9).

- - “Synonymy of Leucophlebria lineata brunnea (Sphingidae) {ibid., p. 8).

Rogers, E. S. “The Indian Concept of Property” {Ontario Fish and Wildlife Review, vol.
5, no. 1, 1966, pp. 21-4).

Russell, L. S. “The Changing Environment of the Dinosaurs in North America” {Advance¬
ment of Science, vol. 23, no. 110, Aug., 1966, pp. 197-204).

- - - “Confederation Lamps” {Canadian Collector, vol. 2, no. 3, 1967, pp. 9—11).

- - - Dinosaur Hunting in Western Canada. Life Sciences Contribution no. 70. Toronto:

Royal Ontario Museum. 1966. Pp. 37.

- - “Exploring the ‘New Red Sandstone’” ( Meeting Place, vol. 1, no. 8, 1966; in Varsity

Graduate, vol. 13, no. 1, 1966, pp. 105—7).

- - — Review, Journal of Palaeontology, vol. 41, no. 3, May, 1967, pp. 813—14.

Scott, W. B. “Comparison of Cod {Gadus morhua ) and Haddock (Melanogrammus aegle-
finus) with Particular Reference to Axial Skeleton, especially Transverse Processes and
Ribs” {Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Manuscript Report Series (Biological), no.
878, 1966).

- - “Toronto: A Glimpse into the Past” ( Outdoor Crest, vol. 2, no. 1, 1966, pp. 4-7).

Scott, W. B. (with C. G. Grunchy) “ Lepomis megalotis, the Longear Sunfish in Western
Ontario” {Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, vol. 23, no. 9, Sept., 1966,
pp. 1457—9).

Scott, W. B. (with A. H. Leim) “Fishes of the Atlantic Coast of Canada” {Bulletin of the
Fisheries Research Board of Canada, no. 155, 1966, p. 485).

Stephen, Barbara. Review, The Asian Student, vol. 15, no. 27, March, 1967, p. 8.

Swann, P. C. “Connoisseurship and His Majesty King Gustav VI Adolph of Sweden”
{Connoisseur, vol. 164, no. 659, Jan., 1967, pp. 2—7).

- Japan: from the Josman to the Tokugawa Period. London: Methuen. 1966. Pp. 238.

- - - “The Sorry Plight of the ROM” {Toronto Life, vol. 1, no. 7, May, 1967, pp. 19-22,

52).

- - - “Vacation ’66” ( Meeting Place, vol. 1, no. 8, 1966; in Varsity Graduate, vol. 13, no.

1, 1966, pp. 102-3).

Tovell, W. M. “From TV to the Great Lakes” {Meeting Place, vol. 1, no. 8, 1966; in
Varsity Graduate, vol. 13, no. 1, 1966, pp. 109-11).

- “A Geologist Looks at the Niagara Escarpment” {Ontario Naturalist, vol. 4, no. 4,

Dec., 1966, pp. 4-6).

- “Geology”; in To Every Thing There is a Season, by Roloff Beny, pp. 52—3. Toronto:

Longmans. 1967.

— — ■ — - “Grizzly Bear Skull: Site of a Find near Lake Simcoe” {Science, vol. 154, no. 3745,
Oct., 1966, p. 158).

Tovell, W. M. and Deane, R. E. “Ancestral Lake Superior Shorelines, Montreal River
Harbour Area, Ontario” {Proceedings of the Geological Association of Canada, vol. 17,
1966, pp. 53-63).

Trubner, H. “Chinese Art from a Royal Collection” {Antiques, vol. 91, no. 5, May, 1967,
pp. 644—6).

Tushingham, A. D. “Jerusalem; the Big ‘Dig’ at the Old City” {Meeting Place, vol. 1, no. 8,
1966; in Varsity Graduate, vol. 13, no. 1, 1966, pp. 103-5).

Webster, D. B. “Stop Scalping our Heritage!” ( Canadian Collector, vol. 2, no. 2, 1966, pp.
16-17).

White, W. C. Chinese Jews. 2nd. ed., with an introduction by Cecil Roth. Toronto: Uni¬
versity of Toronto Press, [c. 1 966 ] 3 vols. in 1.

Wiggins, G. B. Centennial of Entomology in Canada, 1863—1963. A Tribute to Edmund M.
Walker. Life Sciences Contribution no. 69. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum. 1966. Pp. 94.

Young, T. C. “Excavations in Western Iran” {Archaeology, vol. 20, no. 1, 1967, pp. 63-4).

- “Surveys in Western Iran, 1961” {Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 25, no. 4,

1966, pp. 228-39).

- - - Reviews, American Anthropologist, vol. 68, no. 6, 1966, pp. 1573—4; Journal of the

American Oriental Society, vol. 86, no. 3, 1966, pp. 341-3.

Young, T. C. (ed.) Near Eastern Culture and Society. New Haven: Princeton University
Press. 1966. Pp. 250.

Young, T. C. and Smith, P. E. L. “Research in the Prehistory of Central Western Iran”
{Science, vol. 153, no. 3734, 1966, pp. 386-91).

Young. T. C. (with D. Stronach) “Three Seljuk Tomb Towers” (Iran, vol. 4, 1966, pp.
1-20).

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Museum Board

Harold M. Turner, m.s., Chairman
A. D. Allen, b.sc., ph.d.

W. M. Vacy Ash, m.a.

L. G. Berry, m.a., ph.d., f.r.s.c., f.g.s.a.

Claude T. Bissell, m.a., ph.d., d.litt., ll.d., f.r.s.c.
Henry Borden, c.m.g., q.c., b.a., ll.d.

Mrs. W. H. Clarke, m.a.

J. H. Crang

The Hon. Leslie M. Frost, p.c., q.c., ll.d., d.c.l.

R. A. Laidlaw, b.a., ll.d.

Richard G. Meech, b.a., q.c.

O. M. Solandt, o.b.e., m.a., m.d., ph.d., ll.d.

Mrs. Edgar Stone, m.a.

Mrs. O. D. Vaughan, m.a.

Arthur G. Walwyn, b.a., j.p.

Museum Officers

Peter C. Swann, m.a., Director

J. F. Brook, Secretary-Treasurer

V. B. Meen, m.a., ph.d., Chief Mineralogist

L. S. Russell, b.sc., m.a., ph.d., ll.d., f.r.s.c., Chief Biologist

A. D. Tushingham, b.a., b.d., ph.d., Chief Archaeologist

June 30, 1967

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